ugly cursor.. can i change them?

[jspectre]

hello all..

i'm new to gentoo, loving it. got x up and running and playing with various window managers (since all i have to do is emerge and they're there). my cursors though are damn big and damn ugly. a large black arrow, a black hand, etc. sort of hard to see too. i was wondering if there's a simple way to change them? seems to be the same cursors no matter what wm i'm in.

is there an easy way to change my cursors?

thanks

-js

[Syntaxis]

Yep, you can.

The following is ripped from the README included with the "Yet another white mouse cursor font" package found on http://www.kde-look.org. Tailor the instructions to suit your own configuration.

----snip----
To install one of the fonts there are different more or less elegant
ways. All have in common, that the chosen font has to be called
"cursor.pcf.gz", no matter where it gets installed. Do not type in
the `$' and `#', they just indicate the command line prompt!
You have to reboot^H^H^H^Hstart the X server for all three versions
to take effect.
Note that some of the cursors will still appear black, because they are
provided by the Qt library, which you would have to patch to change
the color.

1. The elegant & universal version:
-----------------------------------
This solution does not depend on KDE, it works with any window
manager/desktop environment. Create your own font directory,
put the font there (under the name "cursor.pcf.gz") and call
mkfontdir for that directory:

$ mkdir ~/.fonts
$ mv cursor_white.pcf.gz ~/.fonts/cursor.pcf.gz
$ mkfontdir ~/.fonts

Now put the following lines into your ~/.xinitrc file---create
one if there's none:

xset +fp ~/.fonts # specify absolute path!
xset fp rehash

2. The KDE version:
-------------------
KDE has already a font directory in your home directory, that can
be used: $KDEHOME/share/fonts/override/.

$ mv cursor_white.pcf.gz ~/.kde/share/fonts/override/cursor.pcf.gz

The problem is just, that the font might get overridden by KDE's
kcminput module, so it should be protected with the "immutable" flag
on ext2 file systems or copied there again (and again and again ...)
if necessary. As root type:

# chattr +i ~/.kde/share/fonts/override/cursor.pcf.gz

3. The hackish version:
-----------------------
If you are root, you can of course simply put the font into the
XFree86 font directory. Don't forget to save the original font before.

# cp cursor_large.pcf.gz /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/misc/cursor.pcf.gz
----snip----

Hope this helps

[jspectre]

that helped though i found the answer a little bit earlier with some searching on google.. turned out one of the themes i installed for sawfish came with some cursor fonts. that's what started this all. i removed the offending font and am back to an easy to use cursor. some day i'll look at what else is out there..

thanks for the assistance!
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[ShiVa]

how can i change the color of the standard xcursor, i know that this is done somehow with xsetroot, but how is the BIG qhestion...
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