Set the X cursor theme in XFCE 4.10

After upgrading to Debian Jessie and XFCE 4.10, I set the default cursor theme in XFCE main menu – Settings – Mouse and Touchpad – Theme tab.

But this seemed to affect only a few applications.

To consistently set the theme for all applications and the desktop I had to run this:

oliver@debian:~$ sudo update-alternatives --config x-cursor-theme
There are 3 choices for the alternative x-cursor-theme (providing /usr/share/icons/default/index.theme).

  Selection    Path                                    Priority   Status
------------------------------------------------------------
  0            /usr/share/icons/Adwaita/cursor.theme     90        auto mode
  1            /usr/share/icons/Adwaita/cursor.theme     90        manual mode
  2            /usr/share/icons/DMZ-Black/cursor.theme   30        manual mode
* 3            /usr/share/icons/DMZ-White/cursor.theme   50        manual mode

Press enter to keep the current choice[*], or type selection number:

Select the desired theme from the listed options and make sure it is the same as the one you selected in the XFCE settings.

Configure Intellij to use default Eclipse Java import layout

Eclipse and Intellij use different default layouts of Java imports. If used on the same project, Eclipse’s “Organize Imports” will compete with Intellij’s “Optimize Imports“.

To avoid distracting back-and-forth code changes, Intellij can be configured to match the default Eclipse behavior:

Go to File – Settings – Editor – Code Style – Java – Imports tab

Prevent on-demand imports (i.e. wildcards) by settings high count limits:
intellij-java-imports-no-wildcards

Define the imports layout (i.e. grouping and order) like this:
intellij-java-imports-layout

Fix Eclipse installation after Cygwin unzip

I used Cygwin’s unzip on Windows 7 to unpack freshly downloaded Eclipse zip packages. When trying to start eclipse.exe, I was getting weird error messages:

For Luna (4.4):

eclipse-luna-error-after-cygwin-unzip

For Mars (4.5):

eclipse-mars-error-after-cygwin-unzip

It turned out that after unzipping, the executable permission was not set on ‘exe’ and ‘dll’ files, so I had to fix it like this:
find eclipse \( -name '*.dll' -or -name '*.exe' \) -exec chmod +x {} \;