Comments on: How to install beautiful X11 cursors

By: donnie

donnie — Thu, 08 Apr 2010 22:02:15 +0000

Download cursor theme, rename it to “default”, and place here:

–>> usr/local/share/cursors/xorg-x11/

–>> index.theme
–>> [Icon Theme]
–>> inherits=core

Please make your instructions clean.

By: donnie

donnie — Thu, 08 Apr 2010 22:01:25 +0000

After I followed these instructions, all worked in about 3 minutes. But after that I’VE SPENT AN HOUR and it didn’t work, because of this:

Inherits=cursor_theme <— THIS shitty name should be with dots? Or, with underscores?? Maybe it's not a cursor name, just the name of catalogue???

By: donnie

donnie — Thu, 08 Apr 2010 21:59:41 +0000

After I followed these instructions, all worked in about 3 minutes. But after that I’VE SPENT AN HOUR and it didn’t work, because of this:

Inherits=cursor_theme > usr/local/share/cursors/xorg-x11/

–>> index.theme
–>> [Icon Theme]
–>> inherits=core

Please make your instructions clean.

By: Anon

Anon — Thu, 25 Mar 2010 20:50:31 +0000

Hi, found this article by Google so I figure others will also.

The way to get rid of a damn annoying cursor theme, system-wide, is to run “sudo update-alternatives –config x-cursor-theme” and select the one that you’ve found least displeasing. This works beautifully with the package manager also. Hope this helps anyone who comes across here with the same question I had.

By: Sebastián Benítez

Sebastián Benítez — Thu, 19 Nov 2009 22:40:40 +0000

The right command to change the cursor from cross to arrow is ‘xsetroot -cursor_name top_left_arrow’