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#1 2007-06-09 17:44:13

RaisedFist
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How to change X mouse pointer theme?

I just did a reinstall and I'm only using openbox at the moment and I don't know how to change the mouse pointer theme.... please help!

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#2 2007-06-09 18:05:34

Phrodo_00
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Re: How to change X mouse pointer theme?

just copy the one you want to set to .icons and name it 'default', that should do the trick (that's what I used to do before gnome included a dialog to change it)

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#3 2007-06-09 18:06:04

igglybuff
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Re: How to change X mouse pointer theme?

in .Xdefaults
"Xcursor.theme: yourcursorname"

slow

Last edited by igglybuff (2007-06-09 18:06:41)

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#4 2007-06-09 18:10:59

Borosai
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Re: How to change X mouse pointer theme?

I'm not sure of other methods, but this is the way I have it set up.

1) Download the cursor theme you want, extract it (if you need to), and copy the icon theme folder to /usr/share/icons/ (in my case, /usr/share/icons/neutral ).

2) Edit your ~/.icons/default/index.theme file, and point it to your preferred icon theme. In my case, it reads:

[Icon Theme]
Inherits=neutral

where neutral is the name of the icon theme folder in /usr/share/icons/ .

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#5 2007-06-09 18:16:15

RaisedFist
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Re: How to change X mouse pointer theme?

Borosai wrote:

I'm not sure of other methods, but this is the way I have it set up.

1) Download the cursor theme you want, extract it (if you need to), and copy the icon theme folder to /usr/share/icons/ (in my case, /usr/share/icons/neutral ).

2) Edit your ~/.icons/default/index.theme file, and point it to your preferred icon theme. In my case, it reads:

[Icon Theme]
Inherits=neutral

where neutral is the name of the icon theme folder in /usr/share/icons/ .

This works the best, because I don't have to copy the whole theme directory.
The .Xdefaults setting doesn't work .. I don't know the reason.

Thanks everybody!

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