Re: [SLE] pointer icon

From: Jake (me_at_jake-home.uklinux.net)
Date: 07/11/04

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Date: Sat, 10 Jul 2004 23:27:22 +0100

    On Thursday 08 July 2004 03:36, BandiPat wrote:
    > On Wednesday 07 July 2004 09:38 pm, Michael George wrote:
    > > I
    > > have the black arrow on the root window, a whitish 3D looking
    > > pointer over most windows and the goofy hand with elongated index
    > > finger over my workspace manager. And when the system is working
    > > on something, I get the spinning clock pointer icon.
    > >
    > > Where can I change these settings? I don't like them, I prefer my
    > > plain black arrow, or black X or anything consistent.
    > >

    > That's changed in the Control Center Mike. You should have several
    > to choose from there.

    Sorry, as usual I'm several steps behind. OK so Michael uses CTWM so the
    advice above wasn't right. Still, I use KDE and I'd like to have a
    crosshair, say, instead of an arrow for a mouse pointer. I don't see
    any way of setting that in control centre... or perhaps I'm missing
    something??

    /etc/sysconfig/windowmanager has the following lines:

    ## Description: default mouse cursor theme
    #
    # Name of mouse cursor theme for X11. Possible themes can be found
    # in /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/icons/
    #
    X_MOUSE_CURSOR="blueprint-cursor-theme"

    Going to /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/icons/blueprint-cursor-theme/cursors I see
    "crosshair" and think I might be on the right track. But here I get
    (inevitably) stuck. I cannot view any of them, even with the gimp. And
    I'm not sure how exactly to edit the file to achieve what I want.

    Going to yast/system/desktop/X-MOUSE_CURSOR gives me the option of
    changing from blueprint-cursor-theme but no alternatives in the
    drop-down menu; should I enter "crosshair" here perhaps?? Or possibly
    blueprint-cursor-theme/cursors/crosshair <because that is the correct
    path> ??

    By now I've had a couple of cold ones and am probably best off not doing
    this, but any comments will be viewed with interest tomorrow.

    Nothing can dent my good cheer tonight, having followed the thread some
    weeks ago about red-carpet (Anders, Bruce et al) I finally managed to
    make it work this evening and updated my system. Yay 8) 

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