From: Pete Atkinson
Date: Wed, 22 Nov 2000 12:25:10 +0100
From: Stefan Troeger
Try as I might, I haven't been able to find a way to change the cursor shape/colour..Its stuck with a black diagonal arrow which I find quite irritating, I would like a more descreet option.
I've tried xsetroot -cursor but that doesn't appear to have changed anything. I'm running SuSE 7.0, XF86 4.0.1 and KDE.
Try `xsetroot -cursor_name box_spiral'. See /usr/X11/include/X11 for a complete list of available cursors. perl -wne '/^#define\s+XC_(\w+)/; print "$1\n" if $1' /usr/X11/include/X11/cursorfont.h will extract all cursor names from that file. Unfortunately, this will only change the cursor that is used when the mouse pointer is in the root window. As soon as you point it to an application window the app will set the cursor (most do). Ciao, Stefan
From: Pete Atkinson
Hi,
On Wed, Nov 22 2000 at 07:20 +0000, Pete Atkinson wrote:
Try as I might, I haven't been able to find a way to change the cursor shape/colour..Its stuck with a black diagonal arrow which I find quite irritating, I would like a more descreet option.
I've tried xsetroot -cursor but that doesn't appear to have changed anything. I'm running SuSE 7.0, XF86 4.0.1 and KDE.
Try `xsetroot -cursor_name box_spiral'. See /usr/X11/include/X11 for a complete list of available cursors.
perl -wne '/^#define\s+XC_(\w+)/; print "$1\n" if $1' /usr/X11/include/X11/cursorfont.h
will extract all cursor names from that file. Unfortunately, this will only change the cursor that is used when the mouse pointer is in the root window. As soon as you point it to an application window the app will set the cursor (most do).
Ciao, Stefan
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Date: Thu, 23 Nov 2000 09:35:09 +0100
From: Stefan Troeger
I've had loads of fun playing with the new cursors - that side works a treat, I think the problem was knowing the cursor file names.. anyway, you hit the nail on the head when you say the app will overwrite the xsetroot, as soon as it goes into a window or ggame the arrow comes back. How do you change the KDE cursor ?
I don't think that KDE has a configuration option to change the cursor. So the only way is hacking the source. Ciao, Stefan
Date: Thu, 23 Nov 2000 10:44:46 -0600
From: ZephyrQ
I've had loads of fun playing with the new cursors - that side works a treat, I think the problem was knowing the cursor file names.. anyway, you hit the nail on the head when you say the app will overwrite the xsetroot, as soon as it goes into a window or ggame the arrow comes back. How do you change the KDE cursor ?
Pete
On Wed, 22 Nov 2000, you wrote:
Hi,
On Wed, Nov 22 2000 at 07:20 +0000, Pete Atkinson wrote:
Try as I might, I haven't been able to find a way to change the cursor shape/colour..Its stuck with a black diagonal arrow which I find quite irritating, I would like a more descreet option.
From: James Ogley
Or, for that matter, how do you change the cursor in Gnome? Is there a FAQ or readme somewhere?
<p>AFAIK you can't change it for GNOME as a whole, I don't recall tere being an option to do that in a GTK theme, so it comes down again to each individual app -- James Ogley, Network Manager, SuSE Linux Ltd - +44 (0) 20 8 387 4088 @ Work: ogley@suse.co.uk http://www.suse.co.uk @ Home: james@rubberturnip.org.uk http://www.rubberturnip.org.uk @ Mobile: riggwelter@sms.genie.co.uk ICQ: 57374251 Slashdot: riggwelter (84180) asylum-mud.org: Riggwelter "I lift up my eyes to the hills, from where does my help come?"
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