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Reformist
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Also, I do get the weird flicker behavior form time to time. I left my cursor sitting on my desktop, and with nothing running, it was fine (animating), started flickering (while still animating) and then returned back to normal after about a second of flickering... very strange.
Once again, these cursor's are gorgeous!
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| Posted: Wed Apr 23, 2003 3:46 am Post subject: |
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| Hah! I finally got it working. Even switching to KDE didn't fix it all the way. I got pretty cursors, but only when stretching windows. Basically it was always defaulting back to whiteglass, which was what I was using before. I renamed the whiteglass folder (to whiteass, heh) and boom. There are my pretty cursors. :D |
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nacs
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| Posted: Fri Apr 25, 2003 11:08 pm Post subject: |
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The easiest ways to install these cursors (but on a per user basis) is to simply extract the files and moving them to the ~/.icons directory.
That's it. Just restart X and it'll show the new cursors. |
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jbrown
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| The way the pointer rotates is strangely calming... |
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| Posted: Sat Apr 26, 2003 3:49 pm Post subject: |
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| I love the yellow dot cursors... very little animation, which is a good thing. perfect usability. |
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OdinsDream
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This is a great tip. I'm loving these cursors. However, I'm having one bug that I can't track down.
The cursors look great, no flickering. Whenever my monitor goes on powersave, though, then I move the mouse to get it back...I have a residual "X" cursor wherever the previous one was left.
The cursor is the same one you get when you're starting X, and the checkered background is still on the screen. It's a black X with a white outline.
This remains on the screen, above all other window elements, until I either reload X, or, as I just discovered, take a screenshot with GIMP.
The blue cursors are still working just fine, but how do I stop this black X from appearing?
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| shm wrote: | | I love the yellow dot cursors... very little animation, which is a good thing. perfect usability. |
Why thank you  I tried some of the more flashy sets for a while, and found that after 5 minutes I was reverting to the default X cursors because they were too distracting, so I made my own Pretty easy to do, actually. |
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Reformist
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| Quote: | | I have a residual "X" cursor wherever the previous one was left. |
I have this exact same problem, on my laptop, which has 2 mouse devices connected to it (one touch pad, one usb mouse). Perhaps that is relevant. Anyway, I get that same problem, the big black X cursor sitting in the middle of my screen from time to time; it happens if I flip out of X to a command line, and then flip back in. It also happens quite frequently when the ugly X cursor has appeared, and I restart Xfree, and upon restarting it the X cursor will appear where ever my cursor is (in the corner, in the middle, where ever).
Also, this did not happen with just the nice rotating cursors, but with any themeable cursor besides the defaults (including whiteglass).
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| Quote: | Also, I do get the weird flicker behavior form time to time. I left my cursor sitting on my desktop, and with nothing running, it was fine (animating), started flickering (while still animating) and then returned back to normal after about a second of flickering... very strange.
Once again, these cursor's are gorgeous! |
See the post I made about a problem with cursors on XFree. I had the very same problem. I solved it by disabling Hardware Rendering of the cursors in my XF86Config. That only works if you are using nvidia drivers. |
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hook
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the only thing that bothers me is that it flickers when i play planeshift and a square inch around it that's a few seconds late with refreshing of the image
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jesterspet
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Having just read this thread, I thougt it would be cool to try out.
Since I am remoting in to my Linux box, I cannot tell if it worked. however, I do have one thing to add to this thread.
If you do not have a ~/.icons directory, and the cursers you want to try out are in the /usr/share/cursors/xfree directory, make the .icons directory in your home directory and simply symlink the directory you want to try.
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mkdir .icons
ln -sv /usr/share/cursors/xfree/gentoo/ |
This serves two functions.
- Eliminates multiple/redundant copies of the files, thus saving disk space (hey, 1kb saved is 1kb earned)
- If you don't like what you are using, you can simply kill the symlink an resort back to your previous cursors. This makes trying out the ones available, much simpler.
Also if you are in a multiuser enviroment, you can also throw this tip in your /etc/skel/ directory and have each new user using nifty looking cursors 
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hook
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| barlad wrote: |
See the post I made about a problem with cursors on XFree. I had the very same problem. I solved it by disabling Hardware Rendering of the cursors in my XF86Config. That only works if you are using nvidia drivers. |
...hmmm, where exactly is this option? ...i've searched the whole XF86Config but it's not there
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| Posted: Tue Apr 29, 2003 5:07 pm Post subject: |
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Here is my first ebuild ever!!! Please read the message at the bottom after you emerge.
1) Create the /usr/local/portage/x11-themes/xcursors3d directory;
2) Copy this into a file called xcursors3d-0.1.ebuild in that directory:
| Code: | # Copyright 1999-2003 Gentoo Technologies, Inc.
# Distributed under the terms of the GNU General Public License v2
# $Header: $
DESCRIPTION="Animated 3D XCursors (gold, silver and blue)"
HOMEPAGE="http://www.kde-look.org/"
SRC_PATH0="http://www.kde-look.org/content/files"
SRC_URI="${SRC_PATH0}/5507-Golden-XCursors-3D-0.7.tar.bz2
${SRC_PATH0}/5532-BlueGlass-XCursors-3D-0.3.tar.bz2
${SRC_PATH0}/5533-Silver-XCursors-3D-0.3.tar.bz2"
LICENSE="LGPL-2.1"
SLOT="0"
KEYWORDS="x86 ppc sparc ~alpha ~mips ~hppa arm"
IUSE=""
DEPEND=">=x11-base/xfree-4.3.0"
S=${WORKDIR}
src_install () {
dodir /usr/share/cursors/xfree
cp -dR Golden-XCursors-3D-0.7/gold ${D}/usr/share/cursors/xfree/gold3d
cp -dR Silver-XCursors-3D-0.3/Silver ${D}/usr/share/cursors/xfree/silver3d
cp -dR BlueGlass-XCursors-3D-0.3/Blue ${D}/usr/share/cursors/xfree/blue3d
}
pkg_postinst () {
einfo
einfo "To switch to one of these cursors, you must modify \"index.theme\""
einfo "(in the \"/usr/share/cursors/xfree/default/\" directory) as follows"
einfo "and then, restart X:"
einfo " -for the gold cursor: inherits=gold3d"
einfo " -for the silver cursor: inherits=silver3d"
einfo " -for the blue cursor: inherits=blue3d"
einfo
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3) Create a digest for the ebuild :
| Code: | | ebuild /usr/local/portage/x11-themes/xcursors3d/xcursors3d-0.1.ebuild digest |
4) emerge and you will have all 3 animated cursors
Hope it works for you
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r101
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| Posted: Tue Apr 29, 2003 6:54 pm Post subject: |
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| hook wrote: | | barlad wrote: |
See the post I made about a problem with cursors on XFree. I had the very same problem. I solved it by disabling Hardware Rendering of the cursors in my XF86Config. That only works if you are using nvidia drivers. |
...hmmm, where exactly is this option? ...i've searched the whole XF86Config but it's not there |
You want to put
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Option "HWCursor" "false"
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in your device section, e.g.
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Section "Device"
Identifier "Geforce 2"
Driver "nvidia"
# Option "RenderAccel" "true"
Option "HWCursor" "false"
EndSection
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| Posted: Tue Apr 29, 2003 10:38 pm Post subject: NVidia, and the flickery animated mouse |
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I'm using the 'silver' animating set, at 1600x1200 - the movement is quite subtle at that res. I too had to disable Hardware rendering of the cursor (see above) to stop the annoying flicker.
Does anyone have any more data on this problem?
Does it happen with the old (3???) series of drivers? Does running is Software mode have any adverse performance effects? Does anyone have any word on whether the problem is known about / slated for fixing with NVidia? |
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hook
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the flickering stopped, but i still get that really annoying flickering/lag in planeshift ...any idea how i can solve that?
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| Posted: Fri May 02, 2003 5:56 pm Post subject: |
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| royko wrote: | I'm using animated cursors (I chose the Gold version of the theme posted above) on Flux, and I have no problems with my cursor changing over xmms or gnome-terminal.
I also set the size to 16 in .Xdefaults.
Not sure why you are having problems. I didn't really do anything special. |
Where is this file? I looked all over but didn't see it. And what do I add/change in it to get my size smaller? Thanks... |
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Narux
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| Posted: Sun May 04, 2003 1:55 pm Post subject: |
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Try:
It doesn't exist by default (at least for me).
The contents you might want would be:
| Code: | Xcursor.theme: gold
Xcursor.size: 16 |
Edit: added missed word
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| Posted: Sun May 04, 2003 10:37 pm Post subject: |
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Thanks, I tried that but my size is still the same.
I know it's accessing the file though, because whatever I change the font to in it changes it. |
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Chuckles
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| Posted: Mon May 05, 2003 10:02 pm Post subject: |
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in enlightenment i can only get the animated cursors working overtop of other programs, xterm, phoenix, etc. but over the desktop and gaim it reverts back to the regular black icon. does anyone have any idea how to fix this?
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| Posted: Tue May 06, 2003 1:50 am Post subject: |
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i didnt see an edit button, but it seems that the cursor doesnt work in any gnome program or on the enlightenment desktop. i dont know if it works with kde apps, as i have none. do i have to assign this kind of new cursor to enlightment somehow? and then to all the gnome apps?
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| Posted: Thu May 08, 2003 1:12 pm Post subject: |
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I use the the BlueGlass pointers
They look really nice, but raises a couple of questions:
1. When I drag files, the pointer is replaced by the original black pointer, untill I stop dragging the file around
Does this happen for all of you???
2. Wish way does that blue, animated pointer turn...
The more I look at it, the more confused I get.
Sometimes I would say clockwise and sometimes counterclockwise...
... great fun 
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nauseatingly beautifully.
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| Posted: Sat May 17, 2003 7:26 am Post subject: |
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Personally, like the silver ones most. Excellent cursors though! Thanks for the heads up!
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| Posted: Sat May 17, 2003 8:02 am Post subject: |
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Oh forgot to reply about the ability to use this in enlightenment.
If you do it this way youll only get the animated cursor over various program windows.
However there is both a patch and tweaking ways available. Search www.google.com for something simular and you should find enlightenments forum with patch in the dev section.
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