New user - strange mouse cursors

[David Rosca]

On Sat, Apr 13, 2019 at 11:43 PM Tobiasz Karoń <unfa00 at gmail.com> wrote:
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> On that system it's KDE 5 on Linux Mint 18.2, Fallon installed from snap (IIRC).
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> On Manjaro with KDE 5 it works fine though.

In that case please use Falkon from repository if you can.

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> On Sat, Apr 13, 2019, 22:06 David Rosca <nowrep at gmail.com> wrote:
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>> 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