danth
gnome: default setting for `stylix.cursor` is not displayed correctly
As described in https://github.com/danth/stylix/pull/357#pullrequestreview-2046506635
In the comments on #357, this is said:
The only case where this could introduce new user facing issues is if the user is tracking our pinned nixpkgs, which is not something we currently recommend (since it's only bumped if necessary to make the tests pass).
What is meant exactly with "tracking our pinned nixpkgs"? I'd assume it means not making stylix follow the user's flake's nixpkgs input, but that is what's in the installation chapter of the book.
{
inputs = {
nixpkgs.url = "github:NixOS/nixpkgs/nixos-unstable";
stylix.url = "github:danth/stylix";
# this would be "not tracking the pinned nipxkgs" (which i also tried, but didn't change anything)
# stylix.inputs.nixpkgs.follows = "nixpkgs";
};
#...
}
Anyway, I ask this because I ran into this issue (the square cursor) on my new install. I've found a cursor package that works fine now, but the default as well as another cursor package I tried (bibata-cursors, the "Bibata Modern Classic" cursors) both have this bug.
Some relevant commits from my config repo:
installed stylix, default cursor
tried Bibata
quitom-cursor-theme works
Am I doing something wrong in my config w.r.t. "tracking the pinned nixpkgs" or do these cursors simply not work with stylix on gnome right now?
They just don't work any more, I'm not sure why. I haven't spent much time looking into the cause of this issue.
If we find a similar looking cursor theme, we could simply change the default to one which works.
By "tracking stylix's pinned nixpkgs", I meant doing the opposite to what you described - making the user's nixpkgs input follow that from Stylix.
By "tracking stylix's pinned nixpkgs", I meant doing the opposite to what you described - making the user's nixpkgs input follow that from Stylix.
I see. That makes sense.
If we find a similar looking cursor theme, we could simply change the default to one which works.
Maybe just the one used in the testbed? It would be nice regardless that the cursor works out of the box.
Related: https://github.com/danth/stylix/issues/379#issuecomment-2125189417
Maybe just https://github.com/danth/stylix/pull/357#issuecomment-2101366556? It would be nice regardless that the cursor works out of the box.
However, Adwaita is a GNOME-specific theme, which could look out of place in other environments. Our defaults should be fairly neutral.