Cursor problem on alacritty after installation

[duhgrando]

This is an known and annoying bug that alacritty dont show the cursor when we move on alacritty window. It would be cool if we set env variables automatically on installation:

wget -qO- https://omakub.org/install | bash

Problem:

XCURSOR_THEME and XCURSOR_SIZE are empty, alacritty use it for some reason, you could check it with:

echo $XCURSOR_THEME
echo $XCURSOR_SIZE

Solution:

Edit your ~/.profile

export XCURSOR_THEME=Yaru
export XCURSOR_SIZE=24

Ps. I just copied the solution from ChatGPT and as it works I stopped to search, so it could be improved, as I understand that its probably some common theme and size.

More info on
#alacritty/alacritty#5889

[Kasui92]

Sounds good. Can you open a PR so we can test it? 💪🏻

[duhgrando]

PR (Pull Request) ? Sorry, I didnt understand what you mean. If it is pull request, I didnt read the code, I'm just did the installation and fine tunning manually.

Maybe I´m could search at code to do the pull request, but I´m comming back at linux after 15 years. If someone knowns the code, I think that will be faster, if I need to do it, it will take some time, I´m neither know how to do the code modification and testing cycle after installation. ( I think that has some way, but I will need to learn it )

Ps. I will love to contribute in the future, this project is amazing! But first, I need to play around with it a little bit before I start accidentally breaking things, heheh

[Kasui92]

Yep, I meant a pull request!
No worries at all. If that’s the case, I can take care of preparing it .

[Kasui92]

So, I'm still testing this because it seems like sometimes it doesn't handle them correctly.
In any case, I'd put them in a separate /defaults/bash/envs file, which is already included in this PR. Once this is completed, I'll add these configurations as well. Just to keep things separate.