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Operating Systems => Linux and UNIX => Topic started by: Agent007 on 16 May 2003, 22:55

Title: Changing Cursors in XFree4.3
Post by: Agent007 on 16 May 2003, 22:55

hi all,

Does anyone know how to change the cursors? Am running Rh9.0.......Is there some tool for this? Also, where will I find more cursors?

thanks,
007

Title: Changing Cursors in XFree4.3
Post by: solo on 19 May 2003, 21:22

edit ~/.Xdefaults and add these lines:

Xcursor.theme=<themename>
Xcursor.size=16|24|32|48|64

There's a lot of themes on KDE-Look (http://www.kde-look.org)'s XFree cursor section (see side panel). Unpack the theme to ~/.icons
(it will be a directory of the theme name).
If the theme has a Makefile file in it, you should unpack it then run it, it will probably generate the cursor files and make symlinks for QT (I believe it still needs symlinks, anyone correct me if I'm wrong).

themes.freshmeat.net has some Xfree cursor projects too I think. As for tools, KDE chose not to provide tools becuase they think it's all a mess (ehk), but I'm not sure about GNOME or Redhat.

Title: Changing Cursors in XFree4.3
Post by: Agent007 on 19 May 2003, 12:53

hi,

Thanks for the info! Btw, I need the cursors to work for all other user accounts too. SO, do the cursors need to be copied in all the home directories of all users?

thanks