Cursor shape fo X.org ?

Hi, 

 is there a "legal" way to change the shape of
the Cursor in X.org ???
 
 Thank you very much for any helpful reply in advance!
 Keep hacking!
 mcc
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I assume you're talking about Cursor Themes. Any desktop
environment should 
allow you to install new themes. Otherwise I believe you can
download a theme 
and put it in ~/.icons/default/ and it will become the
default cursor theme 
for that user.

On Tuesday, 30 May 2006 20:08, Meino Christian Cramer wrote:
> Hi,
>
>  is there a "legal" way to change the shape
of the Cursor in X.org ???
>
>  Thank you very much for any helpful reply in advance!
>  Keep hacking!
>  mcc

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From: Raymond Lewis Rebbeck <dystopianraygmail.com>
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Cursor shape fo X.org ?
Date: Tue, 30 May 2006 20:15:58 +0930

I am a "barefood cowboy" -- will say: I only
have IceWM installed as
Windowmanager and no full blown desktop environment like
XFce, KDE,
Gnome or such. IceWM itsself does not proide such a
mechanism as far
as I know. 

What name should the icon file(s) in ~/.icons/default/ 
have? How to
distinquish the different shape depending on
selecting/text/... ?

Kind regards,
 mcc

> I assume you're talking about Cursor Themes. Any
desktop environment should 
> allow you to install new themes. Otherwise I believe
you can download a theme 
> and put it in ~/.icons/default/ and it will become the
default cursor theme 
> for that user.
> 
> On Tuesday, 30 May 2006 20:08, Meino Christian Cramer
wrote:
> > Hi,
> >
> >  is there a "legal" way to change the
shape of the Cursor in X.org ???
> >
> >  Thank you very much for any helpful reply in
advance!
> >  Keep hacking!
> >  mcc
> 
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> Raymond Lewis Rebbeck
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>  is there a "legal" way to change the shape
of the Cursor in X.org ???
>
>  Thank you very much for any helpful reply in advance!
>  Keep hacking!

If you want it system-wide, try editing
/usr/share/cursors/xorg-x11/default/index.theme with the
name of one of
the other themes (folder-names found in
/usr/share/cursors/xorg-x11/),
for instance:

[Icon Theme]
Inherits=redglass


Now what I can't work out is why my laptop says
"core" too, but all I
get is a triangle default icon (on my desktop a more
"pretty" one). I
have to keep manually changing it to another theme.

Any ideas what this "core" points to, as there
is no "core" folder on
either machine?

Greetings,
Ralph
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On 5/30/06, Ralph Slooten <axllentgmail.com> wrote:
> Now what I can't work out is why my laptop says
"core" too, but all I
> get is a triangle default icon (on my desktop a more
"pretty" one). I
> have to keep manually changing it to another theme.
>
> Any ideas what this "core" points to, as
there is no "core" folder on
> either machine?
>
> Greetings,
> Ralph

"core" simply tells X to use the built-in
default cursors, black with
white borders. Because they are built-in, there are no theme
files for
them.

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Calvin Walton wrote:
> "core" simply tells X to use the built-in
default cursors, black with
> white borders. Because they are built-in, there are no
theme files for
> them.

Then why do I get a normal pointer-icon (mouse) on my
desktop, but a
triangle on my laptop when both state "core"?

Obviously I'm missing
something ... or maybe it's the KDE thing (desktop), and
fluxbox on laptop.

Thanks for the answer.
Ralph


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