New user - strange mouse cursors

David Rosca nowrep at gmail.com
Sat Apr 13 21:06:14 BST 2019


Hi,

On Sat, Apr 13, 2019 at 3:17 PM Tobiasz Karoń <unfa00 at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> Hi!
>
> I've started using Falkon as my defautl web browser, and I really like it!
>
> After an issue with Firefox pushing ads and collecting data from it's
> users in Germany without their consent, I've been looking for an
> alternative. Falkon seems like a browser that I could trust and be
> productive with.
>
> I'm also usign Plasma everywhere, becasue I love it - so thank you!
>
> I've been using Waterfox lately, but it eats memory just like Firefox,
> so I decided to try Falkon instead. I am nost sure if it'll help -
> maybe it's buggy javascript on websites I use. But we'll see.
>
> I have one issue - strange mouse cursors.
>
> Looks like Falkon is forcing X11 to use non-standard mouse cursor
> images over it's window. I don't know why - the cursors look like very
> old pixel-perfect designs, that are not done with anti-aliasing and I
> just find them distracting. Any oher browser I used just uses
> system-wide cursors.

That's most likely because Falkon can't load the correct cursors.
What desktop environment do you use and how did you install Falkon?

>
> No more issues so far :D
>
> I love that Falkon comes with AdBlock and DuckDuckGo by default. And
> I'm happy you also have Windows verisons so I can recommend this
> browser to everyone, not just mu Linux-using friends (like my wife
> who's still running WIndows 7... but I'm sure she'll come to the Light
> Side one day...)
>
> --
> - Tobiasz 'unfa' Karoń

Regards,
David

>
> www.youtube.com/unfa000



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