Comments on: How to install beautiful X11 cursors

By: Robert

Robert — Sat, 12 Jan 2008 04:24:42 +0000

Oh my gosh! This worked without a hitch! This is a great howto, thanks!

By: Anonymous Coward

Anonymous Coward — Thu, 15 Nov 2007 17:55:58 +0000

Thank you so much! I’m using coLinux and I couldn’t get the cursors to change using the Control Panel. It asked me to restart the computer and that did appear to select the cursor theme as default in the Control Panel, but it didn’t actually do anything. Creating a simple link using Konqueror located at /usr/share/icons named default that pointed to the theme did the job immediately, at least for all newly started applications. Does X11 have a way to update the cursors of applications that are already running?

By: Xaprb

Xaprb — Thu, 25 Oct 2007 02:15:41 +0000

I know what you mean, but I don’t know how to change that.

By: Felix

Felix — Thu, 25 Oct 2007 01:34:44 +0000

This is one nice tutorial. Thanks!

But how can I change the default X’s cross cursor to an arrow?
I mean when I start X, then the cursor is a cross, a big fat X. I want it to be a standard arrow…

By: Fernando Cassia

Fernando Cassia — Mon, 23 Jul 2007 03:39:22 +0000

This info seems to be a bit outdated. I’m using Blag, a Fedora Core 6 derivative from the UK, and the paths are not corrent.

Here I explain how I fixed it…

http://geekgaucho.blogspot.com/2007/07/red-mouse-pointer-in-linux-really.html

By: LittleAlex

LittleAlex — Tue, 29 May 2007 08:44:19 +0000

It’s a nice instruction, but I’d like to know whether anything like this could be done on Solaris 10 with Java Desktop System (their default cursors, though they are minimalistic as I like, are not particularly nice). I’m not a very experienced UNIX/Linux user, but I’ve noticed that various Linux distributions use different directories for their themes from the ones that are used on Solaris. As I can see, the default cursors (something that resembles them, anyway :-) ) are kept in /usr/share/gnome/cursor-fonts folder and I’ve seen no way to tell the system that I want some more cursors to be installed (placing them in ~/.themes/ThemeName/cursors folder does nothing. Personally I like Bluecurve cursor icons (Fedora Core 4 default theme), and I already have them, but it seems that the system cannot understand their format (the files that are in /usr/share/gnome/cursor-fonts have .PCF extension, while the Fedora files have no extension at all). Is there a way to circumvent all these problems or am I just dreaming to? :-)

By: imadoofus123

imadoofus123 — Sun, 06 May 2007 17:03:17 +0000

in ubuntu i think its /usr/share/icons but it could just be my system

By: josesito

josesito — Fri, 23 Mar 2007 18:08:29 +0000

GREAT!! Thanks for the Howto!!! It worked for me!
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Archlinux 0.8 Voodoo + Fluxbox
P4 @ 2.26GHz — 512MB RAM

By: Soul Hunter

Soul Hunter — Sun, 27 Aug 2006 19:25:09 +0000

Great article! I'm just getting started with GNU/Linux and I couldn't find nowhere any detailed description of how the cursor-themes works.

Thanks :)

By: Beket

Beket — Sun, 30 Apr 2006 19:09:03 +0000

Excellent text ;)