Changing the Gtk cursor

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MickKi · Post by **MickKi** » Sun Feb 10, 2008 10:22 pm

Hi All,

The wife is complaining that the default cursor shape when hovering over links in FF & Opera browsers is not to her liking.

It is the "pointing finger to the left" type of cursor that she wants changing. How can I change this to other shapes?

di1bert · Post by **di1bert** » Mon Feb 11, 2008 6:43 am

I don't know of any way to change a single cursor, but I do use gnome-extra/gcursor to change
the entire theme. Probably not exactly what you want but it's a start

I've noticed that under Gnome Opera tends to ignore your cursor theme anyway. Not sure if it's a QT thing
but yeah...

HTH

-m

01mf02 · Post by **01mf02** » Mon Feb 11, 2008 5:39 pm

This should be a WM issue. I would like to help you, but I only have FVWM, so ...

MickKi · Post by **MickKi** » Mon Feb 11, 2008 11:06 pm

Thank you both, I do not have Gnome and my WM is Fluxbox, while my wife is using KDE. As you say Opera (and FF-bin?) are compiled with static Gtk+ decorations, so changing the WM settings does not have an effect. I even tried manipulating the Xorg variable for cursors: export XCURSOR_THEME=whiteglass, but that didn't do anything either.

Meanwhile, I saw this: http://www.gentoo-wiki.com/HOWTO_Same_l ... GTK_1_apps. Not exactly what I'm after but it may help others with similar problems.

Also found this: x11-themes/gtk-theme-switch. May give it a go when I get a minute.

GWilliam · Post by **GWilliam** » Mon Feb 11, 2008 11:37 pm

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MickKi · Post by **MickKi** » Tue Feb 12, 2008 7:09 am

Doh! Of course! Hence, qtconfig is what should be used to configure themes (but it doesn't include cursors).

skellr · Post by **skellr** » Tue Feb 12, 2008 8:42 am

I know the blue glass cursor theme give some info for setting the cursor theme when you install it.
/usr/share/cursors/default/index.theme "inherits = cursor_theme)name" or something like that. sorry, I'n not on Gentoo atm.

lightvhawk0 · Post by **lightvhawk0** » Fri Jun 27, 2008 8:37 pm

Xcursor (mostly) follows the freedesktop.org spec for theming icons.
The default search path it uses is ~/.cursors, ~/.icons,
/usr/local/share/cursors/xorg-x11, /usr/local/share/cursors,
/usr/local/share/icons, /usr/local/share/pixmaps, /usr/share/cur-
sors/xorg-x11, /usr/share/cursors, /usr/share/pixmaps/xorg-x11,
/usr/share/icons, /usr/share/pixmaps. Within each of these directo-
ries, it searches for a directory using the theme name. Within the
theme directory, it looks for cursor files in the 'cursors' subdirec-
tory. It uses the first cursor file found along the path.

If necessary, Xcursor also looks for a "index.theme" file in each theme
directory to find inherited themes and searches along the path for
those themes as well.

If no theme is set, or if no cursor is found for the specified theme,
Xcursor checks the "default" theme.

lightvhawk0 · Post by **lightvhawk0** » Fri Jun 27, 2008 8:48 pm

So what that means is

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 mkdir .icons
cd .icons
ln -s {theme}  default

this works with all window managers / desktop environments