
HOW-TO install
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Ways to install cursors have been unhelpful as always with Linux, it's proggies and the sparse documentation you get with any package. I am on Slackware 10 and for some reason I have to install cursors globally so if you are like me then this is for you!
First get the icon theme and if it's folder do as root.
$tar -zxvf cursortheme.tgz /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/icons/ && cd /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/icons/
all that should extract the cursor folder to that directory and then you should be in /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/icons/ and see the folder you just placed there. Also you will see index.theme. cat index.theme Default will look like this:
[Icon Theme]
Inherits=core
You don't want that ugly default theme. So lets say the folder you just extracted is Grounation (nice look). Then open up index.theme in your fav editor and place the name of whatever cursor folder you have there. Eg.
[Icon Theme]
Inherits=Grounation
log out and log back in and voila. Warning: this will replace cursors system wide. I do this way because crappy other ways in my ~/.icons/default do not work!
Btw, this is for Gnome and other stuff. KDE has easy to use configuration in kcontrol to change cursor.
Have fun
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potamus
14 years ago
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potamus
14 years ago
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pnawrocki
15 years ago
handCursorStyle=NotWindows
Actually, you might set this value to anything but "Windows".
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RikRat
16 years ago
/usr/share/cursors/xorg-x11/
Create a directory with the name of the cursorset, and put the "cursors" directory in that directory. Be sure the cursors directory includes directly the cursor images.
That is how I do it. Now you can start KDE Control Center (dunno what it is called in English) and go to [pheripherals], [mouse], [cursors] and select your set.
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wardrich
14 years ago
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Fant0men
13 years ago
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nicc
16 years ago
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zvonSully
16 years ago
driver, add the following line to your XF86Config file, into the nvidia
device section, to fix it:
Option "HWCursor" "off"
|||from Silver XCursors 3D readme file|||
good luck.I dont know if it works .. :)
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intangible
16 years ago
http://qballcow.nl/?name=gcursor&css=0
Works fine for me under Debian Sid Gnome2.6, checkinstall will compile it and make it into a Debian package for ya. BTW, "checkinstall" is the best thing since peanut butter.
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RoadRunnerC3
16 years ago
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chapeaurouge
16 years ago
- Untar the icon theme in ~/.icons/default directory.
- cp -R the cursors directory located in the newly created folder to the ~/.icons/default directory.
- Change the index.theme inherits to the name of your new theme.
- Restart X
chapeaurouge
http://madpenguin.org
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adrenalize
16 years ago
Because I have the problem that on KDE Desktop, I get the white hand when moving over a desktop icon, not the hand cursor of my mouse theme. Same with Windows-Resize cursors, I always get black arrows instead of the resize-cursors my theme has. And that is at all windows.
I even tried and changed index.theme in X11/icons to
[Icon Theme]
Inherits=whiteglass
but still it didn't use the whiteglass cursors on Desktop icons and windows borders.
Just in Mozilla I get the whiteglass hand cursor when moving the mouse over an url.
Don't know why it doesn't work.. :-(
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amiroff
16 years ago
If one chooses the cursor theme from Kcontrol they will find that some of the cursor theme's pointers like resize, wait and point does not work and display standart X cursors instead. For now the only workaround I've gound for this is to leave Control Centre alone and choose cursor themes manually. That is exactly as explained in howto. Don't select cursor themes from control centre module.
To add cursor theme system-wide, just copy your favourite theme (cursors dir) in default directory. Also put your index.theme file content of which is something like this
[Icon Theme]
Name=jimmac
Comment=My Personal Jimmac Cursors
Example=left_ptr
into the same default directory. Then copy this default directory to /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/icons/ . Don't mess with Kcontrol, just use this method to make your theme default for every account on system.
If you want to change the cursor theme, again modify the index.theme file and change the theme name in it to say, Silver, and copy your silver directory to /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/icons/.
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gianfj
16 years ago
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Malbak
16 years ago
Works whit all distros ?
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