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).
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.
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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?
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.
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.
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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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