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Wolferz
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 Posted: Tue Jun 15, 2004 11:44 pm Post subject: xcursors in kde |
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ok to start with i went the extra mile and set kdm to start up in runlevel 4 and all that good stuff so im not typing startx from the console. heres my problem and bear with me cause despite computer ABILITY i am not overly familar (knowledgable) with linux yet. (ie i can folow instructions but i need instructions to follow)
this is running kde 3.2
now heres the problem. i use emerge to retreive blueglass-xcursors when i did this everything went without a hitch. then following the instuctions it dumped in my lap i made the file .Xdefaults and placed in it the solitary line:
| Code: | | Xcursor.theme: Blue |
now im pretty sure you can just log out and choose to restart X from the kdm session menu BUT i descided to restart the whole machine just to be sure. everything starts up, at first it thought i messed up when the default cursor appeared and then i remember i only made the change for one user. so i log into this user and viola nice pretty blue glass looking 3d cursor thing-a-ma-dooi. WOOT oh wait...  why did the deafult cursor come back? BAH!
so i do a little digging and find that kde has its own cursor theme selector. i make my way there and (noting the theme isnt there already) attempt to install the theme from the tar.bz2 file stored im my portage tree. it sias its not a valid cursor theme archive.
(is there) any way i can get kde to default to whatever X has its cursor set to or is there a way i can get this cursor theme into kde? the defaults are borring me to tears  |
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grant.mcdorman
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KDE puts a cursor theme setting in ~/.icons/default/index.theme. Remove this file and the system default will apply.
I'm looking to see if there's a way to convince the KDE control center to recognize the themes in /usr/share/cursors. I'll post back if I find a way. |
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grant.mcdorman
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OK, here's a workaround to get the KDE control center to 'see' your cursors:
The KDE control center looks in the following directories for cursor themes:- ~/.icons
- /usr/share/icons
- /usr/share/pixmaps
- /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/icons
It appears that /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/icons doesn't exist in both XFree86 and Xorg right now, so you can do this as root: | Code: | ln -s /usr/share/cursors/xfree /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/icons # or xorg-x11 if you're using that
cd /usr/share/cursors/xfree
for f in *;do if [ $f != default -a ! -f $f/index.theme ];then echo '[Icon Theme]' >$f/index.theme;fi;done |
You'll then see all of your installed cursor themes in the KDE control center's Mouse applet (that's under Peripherals). The control center will even show a sample cursor (the arrow pointer) for each one.
Note that this doesn't set up a description for the themes. Also note that there are some things that the KDE control center thinks are mouse themes that really aren't.
EDIT: Original code to create 'index.theme' caused X applications to crash. |
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polle
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grant.mcdorman
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| polle wrote: | | https://forums.gentoo.org/viewtopic.php?t=47057&highlight=blueglass |
Yes. Dosn't look like it covers my tip about making the KDE control center "see" the cursors, though. |
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