SuSE 8.2: X eye candy: mouse pointers
Hello all, I'm sure most of you already know this, but it came as somewhat of a shock to me: using XFree86 4.3 (standard with SuSE 8.2) you can finally get some beauty in your mousepointers. I installed the Blue Glass XCursors 3D yesterday from http://themes.kde.org/content/show.php?content=5532, and it's amazing! Anyway, my apologies if I'm pointing out the obvious, but I figured some of you might not be familiar with this feature yet. :) Regards, Pieter Hulshoff
* Pieter Hulshoff (phulshof@xs4all.nl) [030511 07:35]: ->Hello all, -> ->I'm sure most of you already know this, but it came as somewhat of a shock to ->me: using XFree86 4.3 (standard with SuSE 8.2) you can finally get some ->beauty in your mousepointers. I installed the Blue Glass XCursors 3D ->yesterday from http://themes.kde.org/content/show.php?content=5532, and it's ->amazing! -> ->Anyway, my apologies if I'm pointing out the obvious, but I figured some of ->you might not be familiar with this feature yet. :) Yep, I've been using the Reddot theme since I installed 8.2. I like this feature. It's sometimes the little things that make something worth it. And this make 4.3.0 worth it. -- Ben Rosenberg ---===---===---===--- mailto:ben@whack.org The IQ and the life expectancy of the average American recently passed each other going in the opposite direction.
On Sunday 11 May 2003 11:24, Ben Rosenberg wrote:
* Pieter Hulshoff (phulshof@xs4all.nl) [030511 07:35]: ->Hello all, -> ->I'm sure most of you already know this, but it came as somewhat of a shock to ->me: using XFree86 4.3 (standard with SuSE 8.2) you can finally get some ->beauty in your mousepointers. I installed the Blue Glass XCursors 3D ->yesterday from http://themes.kde.org/content/show.php?content=5532, and it's ->amazing! -> ->Anyway, my apologies if I'm pointing out the obvious, but I figured some of ->you might not be familiar with this feature yet. :)
Yep, I've been using the Reddot theme since I installed 8.2. I like this feature. It's sometimes the little things that make something worth it. And this make 4.3.0 worth it.
Can you install more than on set? For instance the Blue set and resizable Tux cursors? I so I would like to try out a few, but I'm not sure if this is a one at a time thing. TIA. Curtis.
* Curtis Rey (crrey@charter.net) [030511 15:13]: -> ->Can you install more than on set? For instance the Blue set andi ->resizable Tux cursors? I so I would like to try out a few, but ->I'm not sure if this is a one at a time thing. I'm not sure about that. I'm pretty much just using the default cursors that came with the Reddot theme. I've tried other themes but they are either too annoying or don't look very good. I think because this is such a new feature that people haven't hooked onto it yet. :) -- Ben Rosenberg ---===---===---===--- mailto:ben@whack.org The IQ and the life expectancy of the average American recently passed each other going in the opposite direction.
On Sunday 11 May 2003 15:16, Ben Rosenberg wrote:
* Curtis Rey (crrey@charter.net) [030511 15:13]: -> ->Can you install more than on set? For instance the Blue set andi ->resizable Tux cursors? I so I would like to try out a few, but ->I'm not sure if this is a one at a time thing.
I'm not sure about that. I'm pretty much just using the default cursors that came with the Reddot theme. I've tried other themes but they are either too annoying or don't look very good. I think because this is such a new feature that people haven't hooked onto it yet. :)
Ok, thanks Ben. I see what comes up. Cheers, Curtis :)
On Monday 12 May 2003 02:12, Curtis Rey wrote:
Can you install more than on set? For instance the Blue set and resizable Tux cursors? I so I would like to try out a few, but I'm not sure if this is a one at a time thing.
I think you can: I currently have two sets installed, but I had to manually edit the .icons/default/index.theme file to do it. Switching between them is done in the .Xdefaults file. Regards, Pieter Hulshoff
On Sunday 11 May 2003 07:32, Pieter Hulshoff wrote:
Hello all,
I'm sure most of you already know this, but it came as somewhat of a shock to me: using XFree86 4.3 (standard with SuSE 8.2) you can finally get some beauty in your mousepointers. I installed the Blue Glass XCursors 3D yesterday from http://themes.kde.org/content/show.php?content=5532, and it's amazing!
Anyway, my apologies if I'm pointing out the obvious, but I figured some of you might not be familiar with this feature yet. :)
Ok, what am I doing wrong? Get the Blue Xcursors from kde-look. Unfold then. Go into dir and move the Blue and defaults to /home/<user>/.kde/share/icons According to the readme it says to copy the two dirs 'Blue' and 'default' to the ~/.icons. I have 'icons' dirs but where are the '.icons' dir. I know that the "." is hidden so finding that isn't a big deal. It doesn't load and I have also added the line to my .Xdefaults file Xcursor.theme: Blue Xcursor.size: 32 But no go. I have also tried to comment/uncomment these lines in/out of .Xdefaults, as well as delete the kde and socket/user tmp files and the .mcop, .mcoprc and the the socket-<host>/tmp-<host> from the .kde dir to in case it was reading old configs/pointers, etc.. Any advice? TIA, Curtis.
On Monday 12 May 2003 03:52, Curtis Rey wrote:
Get the Blue Xcursors from kde-look. Unfold then. Go into dir and move the Blue and defaults to /home/<user>/.kde/share/icons
no, to /home/<user>/.icons
According to the readme it says to copy the two dirs 'Blue' and 'default' to the ~/.icons. I have 'icons' dirs but where are the '.icons' dir. I know that the "." is hidden so finding that isn't a big deal.
mkdir ~/.icons Then unpack and move Blue and default into ~/.icons, then log out and back in It's beautiful :) And it hardly uses any CPU power at all. I'm very impressed. Thanks for the tip!
On Sunday 11 May 2003 17:33, Anders Johansson wrote:
On Monday 12 May 2003 03:52, Curtis Rey wrote:
Get the Blue Xcursors from kde-look. Unfold then. Go into dir and move the Blue and defaults to /home/<user>/.kde/share/icons
no, to /home/<user>/.icons
According to the readme it says to copy the two dirs 'Blue' and 'default' to the ~/.icons. I have 'icons' dirs but where are the '.icons' dir. I know that the "." is hidden so finding that isn't a big deal.
mkdir ~/.icons
Then unpack and move Blue and default into ~/.icons, then log out and back in
It's beautiful :) And it hardly uses any CPU power at all. I'm very impressed. Thanks for the tip!
Thanks again Anders! Yes, very nice and smooth looking. Cheers, Curtis. :)
Hi All, Works here. Very nice looking! Thanks ............... PeterB On Sunday 11 May 2003 19:33, Anders Johansson wrote:
On Monday 12 May 2003 03:52, Curtis Rey wrote:
Get the Blue Xcursors from kde-look. Unfold then. Go into dir and move the Blue and defaults to /home/<user>/.kde/share/icons
no, to /home/<user>/.icons
According to the readme it says to copy the two dirs 'Blue' and 'default' to the ~/.icons. I have 'icons' dirs but where are the '.icons' dir. I know that the "." is hidden so finding that isn't a big deal.
mkdir ~/.icons
Then unpack and move Blue and default into ~/.icons, then log out and back in
It's beautiful :) And it hardly uses any CPU power at all. I'm very impressed. Thanks for the tip!
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