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Pizzasgood

Joined: 04 May 2005 Posts: 6266 Location: Knoxville, TN, USA
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Posted: Tue 20 Jan 2009, 02:30 Post subject:
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Somebody recently asked if it was hard to change cursor themes in Linux. Not at all. The catch is that before you can change themes, you must have themes. So here is a package including 25 themes (50 mb worth, after it's installed, so you may want to cull out the ones you don't like).
http://www.browserloadofcoolness.com/software/puppy/PETget/cursor_themes.pet
They are installed to the hidden directory /root/.icons/. The active theme is set by symlinking its directory to /root/.icons/default. Then simply restart X and enjoy the snazzy new pointer.
Here is a list of the included themes:
aero
blue-crystal
celtic2_preview
celtic_preview
ComixCursors-Blue-Regular
ComixCursors-Orange-Large
crystalgold
daliesque
Golden-XCursors-3D-0.8
GreenApparatus
lil-polar
Nouveau-Onyx-smaller
Obsidian
PolarCursors
Premium
Premium_fade_to_blue
RedDot
Sceptre-small
Vienna3
vox
whiteglass
whitelarge
wonderland
Xeonyx
yellowdot
(A number of these came from a .pup MU posted a long time ago).
More can be found at kde-look under the X11 Mouse Themes section.
_________________ Between depriving a man of one hour from his life and depriving him of his life there exists only a difference of degree. --Muad'Dib

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dejan555

Joined: 30 Nov 2008 Posts: 2805 Location: Montenegro
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Posted: Fri 30 Jan 2009, 11:24 Post subject:
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Pizzasgood wrote: |
They are installed to the hidden directory /root/.icons/. The active theme is set by symlinking its directory to /root/.icons/default. Then simply restart X and enjoy the snazzy new pointer. |
Wow, that was quite easy and trivial, but finding about how it's done is actually what's hard, I supose also for mime icons it's enough to symlink to /root/.icons/ROX ?
Now, another cursor-related thing: If I draw cursor in GIMP, how do I create it's hotspot?
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dejan555

Joined: 30 Nov 2008 Posts: 2805 Location: Montenegro
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Posted: Fri 30 Jan 2009, 13:19 Post subject:
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Nevermind, found about this xcursorgen command line utillity....
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sullysat

Joined: 16 Oct 2007 Posts: 367 Location: San Antonio, TX
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Posted: Sat 31 Jan 2009, 00:36 Post subject:
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Okay, so in order to USE these snazzy new cursors, I have to symlink to the default directory.
Probably simpler than it sounds.
Is there no way to take a look at the darn things first? Do I just keep adding and deleting symlinks until I pick the one I want?
Just wonderin'
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dejan555

Joined: 30 Nov 2008 Posts: 2805 Location: Montenegro
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Posted: Sat 31 Jan 2009, 02:01 Post subject:
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You can check out each theme folder if a preview is included, also there might be source png images included. If you download themes from kde-look link above there's a preview for each theme b4 u download.
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sullysat

Joined: 16 Oct 2007 Posts: 367 Location: San Antonio, TX
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Posted: Sat 31 Jan 2009, 02:36 Post subject:
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Awesome! Thanks!
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WhoDo

Joined: 11 Jul 2006 Posts: 4440 Location: Lake Macquarie NSW Australia
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Posted: Sat 31 Jan 2009, 17:16 Post subject:
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As a matter of interest, Puppy-4.2 Deepthought includes the aero-ds cursor theme as default. aero-ds is an animated clone of the cursor theme in Vista and has a drop shadow (ds) to give it another dimension.
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markofkane

Joined: 03 Jul 2008 Posts: 314 Location: Kane, IL USA
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Posted: Sun 17 May 2009, 15:11 Post subject:
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symlinking? how is that done? I am still unfamiliar with PL.
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dejan555

Joined: 30 Nov 2008 Posts: 2805 Location: Montenegro
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Posted: Sun 17 May 2009, 16:04 Post subject:
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drag folder from one window to another then when you release it it will give you options for copying or symlinking
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markofkane

Joined: 03 Jul 2008 Posts: 314 Location: Kane, IL USA
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Posted: Sun 17 May 2009, 16:07 Post subject:
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Thanks!!!
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markofkane

Joined: 03 Jul 2008 Posts: 314 Location: Kane, IL USA
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Posted: Sun 17 May 2009, 16:31 Post subject:
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Didn't work, even after restarting X server. Still had the same cursor.
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dejan555

Joined: 30 Nov 2008 Posts: 2805 Location: Montenegro
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Posted: Sun 17 May 2009, 17:05 Post subject:
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you sure you symlinked right folder and renamed symlink to "default"?
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markofkane

Joined: 03 Jul 2008 Posts: 314 Location: Kane, IL USA
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Posted: Sun 17 May 2009, 17:06 Post subject:
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yes.
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dejan555

Joined: 30 Nov 2008 Posts: 2805 Location: Montenegro
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Posted: Sun 17 May 2009, 17:11 Post subject:
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Hey, try with pcursor changer from this thread:
http://www.murga-linux.com/puppy/viewtopic.php?search_id=1907996163&t=39013
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markofkane

Joined: 03 Jul 2008 Posts: 314 Location: Kane, IL USA
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Posted: Sun 17 May 2009, 17:15 Post subject:
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I got it. I had Default instead of default.
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