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Carlwill

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From: Orlando, FL

Registered: 2008-10-06

Posts: 560

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Changing Mouse Themes?

I was wondering if there is a way I can change or add more mouse themes to my system. I installed Gnome/GDM however the mouse theme looks very dated and is hard to use. I saw Ubuntu with Gnome 2.24 and it looked amazing. I am using Gnome 2.24 on Arch however it appears I am missing something. Do I need gnome-utils?

Thanks for any help!

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Ranguvar

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Registered: 2008-08-12

Posts: 2,549

Re: Changing Mouse Themes?

http://www.lmgtfy.com/?q=linux+change+mouse+cursor  (just a joke)

There's lots of xcursor packages in the repos and AUR, too.

Hrod beraht

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Registered: 2008-09-30

Posts: 186

Re: Changing Mouse Themes?

The last time I used Ubuntu, the default cursors were the Vanilla-DMZ cursor theme.

pacman -S xcursor-vanilla-dmz

Then throw this in your ~/.Xdefaults file.

Xcursor.theme: Vanilla-DMZ

Bob

P.S. Vanilla-DMZ is the white version. There is also a black version named Vanilla-DMZ-aa

Last edited by Hrod beraht (2008-11-21 18:18:45)

Redroar

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Registered: 2008-03-17

Posts: 200

Re: Changing Mouse Themes?

Note, if you want this in your GDM, you need to move the contents of /usr/share/icons/Vanilla-DMZ to /usr/share/icons/default. GDM always picks the default, so there ya go.

Also, if using Gnome then you don't need that in your .Xdefaults. You can manage it through the Appearance config.

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Hrod beraht

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Registered: 2008-09-30

Posts: 186

Re: Changing Mouse Themes?

Also, if using Gnome then you don't need that in your .Xdefaults. You can manage it through the Appearance config.

Thanks Redroar. I've been using Openbox so long I guess my Gnome-Fu has developed a slow leak

Lord Illidan

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From: Malta

Registered: 2007-10-25

Posts: 248

Re: Changing Mouse Themes?

This is also good, it's what I use : http://aur.archlinux.org/packages.php?ID=9783

Drakx

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Registered: 2008-01-14

Posts: 27

Re: Changing Mouse Themes?

This is also good, it's what I use : http://aur.archlinux.org/packages.php?ID=9783

Thanks

Inxsible

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From: Chicago

Registered: 2008-06-09

Posts: 9,183

Re: Changing Mouse Themes?

Forum Rule #10

Closing.....

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