kemical Posted February 3, 2004 Share Posted February 3, 2004 If your system uses XFree86 4.3.0 or higher and you want to use a snazzy alpha-channeled mouse cursor theme, here's how you do it: 1. Create a directory in your home called .icons. This is the directory defined by the Freedesktop.org standards as the place for user-defined icon themes. 2. Place the cursor theme directory into ~/.icons. The directory should have the form ~/.icons/THEME_NAME/cursors. 3. With either gconftool or gconf-editor, set the value of /desktop/gnome/peripherals/mouse/cursor_theme to the name of the new theme. 4. If you use another window manager or desktop environment, you can also place a line like this in ~/.Xdefaults: Xcursor.theme:THEME_NAME or you can set the XCURSOR_THEME environment variable in your startup scripts. You can find cursor themes at the following addresses: ? http://kde-look.org/?xcontentmode=mouse ? http://themedepot.org/showarea.php4?area=19 ? http://themes.freshmeat.net/browse/982/?topic_id=982 There currently isn't a cursor category on art.gnome.org, but I'm sure there will be soon! My personal favourite is the one created by jimmac, which can be found at http://kde-look.org/content/show.php?content=6550 source : http://jodrell.net/gnome-hacks/hacks.html?id=30 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kemical Posted February 3, 2004 Author Share Posted February 3, 2004 this may be a easier way create directory ~/.icons/default please index.theme in default dir create directory ~/.icons/default/cursors place cursors in there Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kongit Posted February 12, 2004 Share Posted February 12, 2004 thank you. now I gots spiffy cursors. :) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kemical Posted February 12, 2004 Author Share Posted February 12, 2004 anytime ;p ill try to post up some more nifty how-to's for general purpose use as i come by them :) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jonrkc Posted May 17, 2006 Share Posted May 17, 2006 Thank you so much! I've spent the greater part of two days searching for a method of installing cursor sets that would work, and tried probably eight or nine different ones, and untold variations of each of those, with no luck at all. By putting my cursor set in the ~.Xdefault directory as you told how to do, I now am able to use my new cursors. I can sleep better tonight (no exaggeration). I know this is about two years after the original post, but I just needed to say thanks anyway. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
betamaxman Posted May 18, 2006 Share Posted May 18, 2006 You can also convert stardock cursor xp cursors with image magic. There is a tutoral in oreilly's "Linux Hacks" book. Desktop Hacks Cursor XP Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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