Mailinglist Archive: opensuse-kde (119 mails)

[Basil Chupin <blchupin@xxxxxxxxxx>]

Will Stephenson wrote:
> On Friday 06 October 2006 07:35, Basil Chupin said:
>> The mouse finger-pointer in KDE (3.5x) is ugly and annoying to use. (You
>> know, the pointer you get when the normal arrow-pointer of the mouse is
>> moved over, say, a URL link?)
>>
>> The finger is just too damn long! It just does not represent an average,
>> normal human hand. It was quite nice in earlier versions of KDE.
>>
>> This finger pointer I suspect is simply a graphic file which is called
>> at the appropriate time. If so, then this graphic would be editable (
>> via Gimp probably).
>>
>> Does anyone know, please, the name of this file containing this
>> finger-pointer? (Or is this graphic actually hard-coded into some KDE
>> module?)
> 
> You can change it with KControl->Peripherals->Mouse->Cursor Theme.  You 
> probably want 'No theme' to get the earlier pointer.  If you don't like the 
> default selection of themes there are many others at 
> http://www.kde-look.org .
> 
> HTH
> 
> Will


That's the one, Will! "No theme" :-) .

Many thanks.

Cheers.


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