Drag cursor is not consistent

[Eimis-dev]

Yaru cursor dragging icons are not consistent I don't know whether that is a feature or a bug though, when I drag a window I get this nice cursor:

But if I try to drag a web element, something inside a web app or even in some other desktop applications I get this:

Video:

https://streamable.com/2fc0nl

That is when cursor is hovering OVER the element, if I try to click and drag, it briefly turns to that white hand from first image, and then goes back to this dark cursor image again..

To reproduce this, it's easiest to try and drag elements in scratch editor, which I did in the second picture https://scratch.mit.edu/projects/editor/?tutorial=getStarted.

I used Chromium browser on Ubuntu 20.10

[Feichtmeier]

Hi @cybbro thanks for the issue
I think this could be the case of a missing cursor symlink and then the adwaita cursor jumping in.

[Eimis-dev]

Hi @cybbro thanks for the issue
I think this could be the case of a missing cursor symlink and then the adwaita cursor jumping in.

That's a reasonable assumption! by default, Ubuntu 20.10 did not come with adwaita cursors, but I installed them via Synaptic. So it might be picking up those. But I have no idea how cursors work, so I don't know where to change that. Maybe I should uninstall adwaita cursors to see what it does if it can't find those?

[Jupi007]

It's the same issue as #2219.
The problem seemed to be solved with 20.10 but I can actually reproduce it again (on 20.10 using Baobab, ToDo, Atom, ...) 😖

[Jupi007]

The grab cursor (css name) is missing, see: https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/CSS/cursor

[Eimis-dev]

So, what would be the best next step here, should I wait for an advice how to fix it, or just close the issue since it's the duplicate of #2219 ?

[Jupi007]

There was a PR (#2453) which was linking the hand1 icon to the grab one. But looking at /usr/share/icons/Yaru/cursors/ I can't found any grab icon.
IMO this PR is incomplete. How can we symlink a cursor? (EDIT: @Feichtmeier have you got an idea?)

So, what would be the best next step here, should I wait for an advice how to fix it, or just close the issue since it's the duplicate of #2219 ?

As it's a Yaru problem, just wait for a fix PR 🙂

[Feichtmeier]

Idk, can't you just ln -s on the hand cursor ?
Otherwise just copy paste it 🤷

[Jupi007]

Idk, can't you just ln -s on the hand cursor ?
Otherwise just copy paste it shrug

In fact I was asking how to symlink cursors in Yaru repo. 😅 I have no idea of the way to do.

I tried ln -s and it works on Todo (also Atom):

But that didn't resolved the problem into Firefox. By the way there is the same problem with Adwaita. IMO this is a Firefox bug (EDIT: I tried Gnome-web with the same MDN page and it use the correct Yaru grab icon).

[Muqtxdir]

In fact I was asking how to symlink cursors in Yaru repo. sweat_smile I have no idea of the way to do.

@Jupiter007-43 is right, generate-symlink.sh does-not symlink cursor sets even though cursors.list is present
I think its maybe because generate-symlink.shdoes not have cursors in CONTEXT