Cursor

[Brian J. Tarricone]

Andrew wrote:

>On Thu, 2004-02-26 at 14:23, Alacecho wrote:
>  
>
>>    Hi all!
>>    I've found a cursor at Theme depot. It is Tux Cursor!. It seems
>>funny and i would like to install it, but the instruccions don't looks
>>agree in my Mandrake 9.1, and i can't found the correct directory. Is
>>possible to chage xfce's cursor with this one? 
>>    
>>
>
>Alex,
>Yes, I see that my Mandrake 9.2 doesn't have the icons folder either. 
>Not to worry.  I'm not too sure about this, but try creating a folder in
>/usr/lib/X11/ called 'icons'.  I think that'll be fine.  That way,
>you'll end up having /usr/lib/X11/icons/ with a file 'tuxcursor' therein
>and a folder /usr/lib/X11/icons/default/ with a file 'index.theme'
>therein.
>
>Someone correct me if I'm wrong.
>
nope, not quite correct, assuming we're talking about mouse 
pointers/cursors.  they go in /usr/share/cursors (or, i believe, you can 
use ~/.cursors as well).  you can set the xcursor theme by opening up 
your ~/.xfce4/xinitrc. if you don't have one, you can copy the 
systemwide one from /etc/xfce4 to customise (make sure you make it 
executable!)  look for the line that starts with 'xrdb -merge' and add 
'Xcursor.theme: (themename)' to a line after it (but _before_ the line 
labeled 'EOF').  so, for example, mine looks like:

xrdb -merge - << EOF
Xft.dpi: 96
Xft.hinting: 1
Xft.hintstyle: hintfull
Xcursor.theme: whiteglass
EOF

the 'Xft.' stuff has to do with font antialiasing; don't worry about it.

good luck!

    -brian