Cursor themes

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Cursor themes

#1 Post by Pizzasgood »

Somebody recently asked if it was hard to change cursor themes in Linux. Not at all. The catch is that before you can change themes, you must have themes. So here is a package including 25 themes (50 mb worth, after it's installed, so you may want to cull out the ones you don't like).

http://www.browserloadofcoolness.com/so ... themes.pet

They are installed to the hidden directory /root/.icons/. The active theme is set by symlinking its directory to /root/.icons/default. Then simply restart X and enjoy the snazzy new pointer.

Here is a list of the included themes:
  • aero
    blue-crystal
    celtic2_preview
    celtic_preview
    ComixCursors-Blue-Regular
    ComixCursors-Orange-Large
    crystalgold
    daliesque
    Golden-XCursors-3D-0.8
    GreenApparatus
    lil-polar
    Nouveau-Onyx-smaller
    Obsidian
    PolarCursors
    Premium
    Premium_fade_to_blue
    RedDot
    Sceptre-small
    Vienna3
    vox
    whiteglass
    whitelarge
    wonderland
    Xeonyx
    yellowdot
(A number of these came from a .pup MU posted a long time ago).

More can be found at kde-look under the X11 Mouse Themes section.
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Re: Cursor themes

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Pizzasgood wrote: They are installed to the hidden directory /root/.icons/. The active theme is set by symlinking its directory to /root/.icons/default. Then simply restart X and enjoy the snazzy new pointer.
Wow, that was quite easy and trivial, but finding about how it's done is actually what's hard, I supose also for mime icons it's enough to symlink to /root/.icons/ROX ?

Now, another cursor-related thing: If I draw cursor in GIMP, how do I create it's hotspot?

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#3 Post by dejan555 »

Nevermind, found about this xcursorgen command line utillity....

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#4 Post by sullysat »

Okay, so in order to USE these snazzy new cursors, I have to symlink to the default directory.

Probably simpler than it sounds.

Is there no way to take a look at the darn things first? Do I just keep adding and deleting symlinks until I pick the one I want?

Just wonderin'

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#5 Post by dejan555 »

You can check out each theme folder if a preview is included, also there might be source png images included. If you download themes from kde-look link above there's a preview for each theme b4 u download. ;)

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#6 Post by sullysat »

Awesome! Thanks!

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#7 Post by WhoDo »

As a matter of interest, Puppy-4.2 Deepthought includes the aero-ds cursor theme as default. aero-ds is an animated clone of the cursor theme in Vista and has a drop shadow (ds) to give it another dimension. 8)
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#8 Post by markofkane »

symlinking? how is that done? I am still unfamiliar with PL.

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#9 Post by dejan555 »

drag folder from one window to another then when you release it it will give you options for copying or symlinking
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#10 Post by markofkane »

Thanks!!! :)

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#11 Post by markofkane »

Didn't work, even after restarting X server. Still had the same cursor.

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#12 Post by dejan555 »

you sure you symlinked right folder and renamed symlink to "default"?
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#13 Post by markofkane »

yes.

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#14 Post by dejan555 »

Hey, try with pcursor changer from this thread:
http://www.murga-linux.com/puppy/viewto ... 63&t=39013
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#15 Post by markofkane »

I got it. I had Default instead of default.

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#16 Post by dejan555 »

yes, filenames in linux are case sensitive*

EDIT: Hey I just installed cursor themes pet and symlinked one and it changed without restarting X, I use puppy 4.1?
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#17 Post by markofkane »

I got 4.1.2. For some reason I had to restart X-server. :?:

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#18 Post by dejan555 »

Well, you should, I'm just wondering why did it change here on my system? They are not supposed to change before X restart.
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#19 Post by Pizzasgood »

I believe there is a way to change them without restarting X. I just don't know what it is, and never bothered finding out because restarting X is so simple and I rarely change cursors.

It would make deciding which one to use faster though.
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#20 Post by andy2605 »

Is Xcursorgen still in puppy 4.3.1?

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