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macaco

Member

From: Graz, Austria

Registered: 2009-03-22

Posts: 101

Getting the mouse left-handed

Hello Folks!

Beccouse I am lefthanded I would like to "mirror" my mousecursor. I'm using GNOME 2.24 and gdm as login manager.

I have downloaded once a left-handed mouse-theme from Gnomelook. But this proved to be very inconsistend. Also I could not find a way to get another mouse-theme working on gdm.

Any ideas or howtos???

G.

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N-Acc

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Registered: 2009-02-19

Posts: 18

Re: Getting the mouse left-handed

I used a little program called xcur2png to convert a xcursor theme to pngs and a conf file.. then flip horizontally each png with imagemagick, mirror the focus coordinate in the conf file, and pack everything with xcursorgen...

I didn't find xcur2png in aur though, so here's the PKGBUILD if you need it ...

pkgname=xcur2png
pkgver=0.7.1
basever=0.7.1
pkgrel=1
pkgdesc="A program that takes PNG images from X cursor, and generates config-file which is reusable by xcursorgen"
arch=("i686" "x86_64")
url="http://d.hatena.ne.jp/tksmashiw/"
depends=('libxcursor' 'libpng')
source=("http://www.sutv.zaq.ne.jp/linuz/tks/item/xcur2png-0.7.1.tar.gz")

build() {
    cd $startdir/src/$pkgname-$pkgver
    ./configure --prefix=/usr || return 1
    make || return 1
    make DESTDIR=$startdir/pkg/ install || return 1
}
md5sums=('42a425b2572f7a22d58de4c03cc3b288')