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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.

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?

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

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'

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.

Awesome! Thanks!

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.

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

drag folder from one window to another then when you release it it will give you options for copying or symlinking

Thanks!!!

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

you sure you symlinked right folder and renamed symlink to "default"?

yes.

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

I got it. I had Default instead of default.

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?

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

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

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.

Is Xcursorgen still in puppy 4.3.1?