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Title: How to change the mouse icon color in the Tiny Core Linux?
Post by: loop7 on January 31, 2010, 09:45:34 PM

Hi all,

    I am using the rdesktop function in the Linux
When some of the background color/wallpaper were black,
actually i can't see the mouse icon.

Please help

Title: Re: How to change the mouse icon color in the Tiny Core Linux?
Post by: curaga on February 01, 2010, 05:15:59 AM

Xvesa can only use 2-color, black and white, cursors. You'll need Xorg to use any of the newer cursors, such as the ones found on gnome-look.org.

Title: Re: How to change the mouse icon color in the Tiny Core Linux?
Post by: sci_fi on February 01, 2010, 07:32:39 AM

Good morning:

I use Xorg and was able to adjust the cursor size (bigger, one size only) by replacing
usr/lib/X11/fonts/misc/cursor.pcf.gz

Curaga's response seems to indicate that more can be done wrt cursor image, color, etc.

I use icewm. Could someone suggest a starting point on how I might experiment with other cursor themes?

Thank you and best regards,


sci_fi

Title: Re: How to change the mouse icon color in the Tiny Core Linux?
Post by: curaga on February 01, 2010, 09:13:10 AM

I'll do an example installation of the cursors I myself occasionally use, Silver 3d by ezteban.

1) Download and unpack
http://gnome-look.org/content/show.php/Silver+XCursors+3D?content=5533

2) The directory trees in themes differ a bit. You're looking for the directory that contains the dir "cursors". In this theme, it's "Silver-XCursors-3D-0.4/Silver".

3) Create the user's icons directory, if it doesn't exist yet:
mkdir ~/.icons

4) Move the theme dir there
mv Silver-XCursors-3D-0.4/Silver ~/.icons

There should now be a dir ~/.icons/Silver.

5) Add the following to ~/.Xdefaults:
Xcursor.theme: Silver

6) Restart Xorg, and you should be using the new cursor theme.


If you want bigger/smaller cursors, the param "Xcursor.size: 48" can be added to .Xdefaults.
If looking to create a cursor theme extension instead of only installing the theme, the system-wide icons dir is /usr/share/icons.

Title: Re: How to change the mouse icon color in the Tiny Core Linux?
Post by: sci_fi on February 01, 2010, 09:51:11 AM

Thanks, Curaga. Much appreciated. I will try it out.

Best regards,

sci_fi

Title: Re: How to change the mouse icon color in the Tiny Core Linux?
Post by: sci_fi on February 01, 2010, 05:11:53 PM

Thanks yet again, Curaga. Worked like a champ. Now I can spend days tweaking cursors obsessively. My girlfriend is less than pleased.  ;D

sci_fi

Title: Re: How to change the mouse icon color in the Tiny Core Linux?
Post by: loop7 on February 02, 2010, 01:08:13 AM

Thanks,i will try it