LXCursor not working - Changing Mouse Pointer

[marcopl]

Guys, i m new to LXDE. I chose it bcos of the speed and also display stability when using external monitors.

i have been trying to change the mouse pointer size and color via the LXDECC but it gets u nowhere. I taught maybe i had to install kxcursor but that got me nowhere also. Finally there was an old post about editing /usr/share/icons/default and modifying the index.theme file. that's the only thing that worked. I changed "Inherits = whiteglass" to "Inherits=ComixCursors" . Finally i got a larger cursor.

Wished LXDECC really worked though.

[Neal]

marcopl,
The script, lxcursor is specific to PCLinuxOS, as is lxdecc. I'm looking into what could be wrong with lxcursor. I'll package an update as soon as it's fixed.

Neal
Project Lead: PCLinuxOS-LXDE

[slimtop]

Add cursor theme and size to your .Xdefaults file in your home directory like;


Xcursor.theme: Eclipse
Xcursor.size: 40

Eclipse is the name of the directory that contains my cursor theme and it's located in .icons . If you don't have a .Xdefaults file, create it.

Log out then in again and it should be there!

[Neal]

marcopl,
lxcursor has been fixed. You can look for an updated package to hit the repositories soon.

[nice]

I overcame this error by adding the following

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sGtk/CursorThemeName=Vanilla-DMZ-AA
iGtk/CursorThemeSize=128

to

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~/.config/lxsession/LXDE/desktop.conf

I could not get changes to either .Xdefaults or .gtkrc-2.0 to fix the cursor problem.

[Neal]

There will be a PCLinuxOS-LXDE-2010 soon. The new version of lxcursor will be included.