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LXCursor not working - Changing Mouse Pointer

Posted: Tue Oct 20, 2009 8:15 am
by 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.

Re: LXCursor not working - Changing Mouse Pointer

Posted: Tue Oct 20, 2009 5:23 pm
by 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

Re: LXCursor not working - Changing Mouse Pointer

Posted: Wed Oct 21, 2009 3:34 pm
by 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!

Re: LXCursor not working - Changing Mouse Pointer

Posted: Thu Oct 22, 2009 6:24 pm
by Neal
marcopl,
lxcursor has been fixed. You can look for an updated package to hit the repositories soon.

Re: LXCursor not working - Changing Mouse Pointer

Posted: Fri Feb 05, 2010 1:36 am
by 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.

Re: LXCursor not working - Changing Mouse Pointer

Posted: Fri Feb 05, 2010 10:38 pm
by Neal
There will be a PCLinuxOS-LXDE-2010 soon. The new version of lxcursor will be included.