On Saturday 27 September 2003 03:55 am, Russ wrote: > Hi Charlie, > > This was actually my third attempt at trying to change the cursors. This > computer is totally Linux now and I donot miss Win at all. However, even > though I love Linux, I really didn't care for the black cursor. I found > the flat white ones (ya, the ones from Win) on kdelook.org and followed > the install instructions (extract the zip, then navigated to the source > folder and typed make install). > > With Yankl's post: > > As root extract the cursor files in directory to > > /usr/share/icons/cursor_them_name. > > Edit /usr/share/icons/default/index.theme. > > Add following: > > [Icon Theme] > > Inherits=cursor_them_name > > (Thanks Yankl) > > I now have global white cursors (even in the login screen - cooooool). > > As an added benefit here, I like using both, Konquere and Mozilla > (Mozilla seems to do better on some pages) but I didn't like the little > hand that mozilla used when passing over a link. Now it uses the same > hand as Konquerer (I know, trivial, but hey - eye candy :-) > > Charlie M. wrote: > > Bit of background would probably be helpful but I'll take a swing at it. > > How did you change your cursors? I installed cursor_themes as soon as > > Buchan Milne announced it on the cooker list and have been using it > > since. > > > > Close everything you have open in any of the virtual desktops. In a > > terminal as super user type choose_cursor <enter> pick the global cursor > > setting you want accept the offer to restart the X-server and just to be > > certain, log out and log back in. All users (including root) should now > > have the same cursor. > > > > To set the cursors to be the same for all users may not be a good idea. > > If you have multiple users on the system some may not want to use the > > animated penguin as a cursor, or a flaming red one or.... <g> Hey, it's > > your system. > > > > Best of luck; > > Charlie Ah :-) the power of manually changing the script. I love linux for that. -- Yankl Tiny IT guy. 100 % Micro$oft free. Registered linux users 181086 URL: http://yankele.com
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