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Hello,

I am using LXDE desktop in Trisquel 4.5. When I run a software, it is not displaying the Hourglass Mouse Cursor when the software is loading. Could you please tell me how to enable the hourglass ?

Thanks.

Not sure if the hourglass is loaded with lxde. My cursor has always been a spinning circle. Let me see if I can find something.

edit: So far I have found this from Arch Linux on mouse cursor themes. I have not tried it yet and am still researching.
https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/X11_Cursors

Not sure if the hourglass is loaded with lxde. My cursor has always been a spinning circle. Let me see if I can find something.

Yes, exactly. That spinning circle is not displaying in my system. A cursor that is used for loading is fine for me.

edit: So far I have found this from Arch Linux on mouse cursor themes. I have not tried it yet and am still researching.
https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/X11_Cursors

Do you mean that I have to install a cursor theme (as given in the url), so that the spinning circle will start appearing whenever something is loading ?

No. That was not meant. In the first place since Trisquel 4.5 is based on Ubuntu 10.10, is it still supported? I have no idea. Ubuntu 10.10 hasn't been supported since April 2012. Not sure about Trisquel.
Do you know which cursor themes are already installed in your OS?
See: My system has only two installed.
/usr/share/icons/DMZ-Black/cursors
/usr/share/icons/DMZ-White/cursors

In the first place since Trisquel 4.5 is based on Ubuntu 10.10, is it still supported? I have no idea. Ubuntu 10.10 hasn't been supported since April 2012. Not sure about Trisquel.

This is a customization of an old Live usb distro. Yes, it is a little bit old.

Do you know which cursor themes are already installed in your OS?

I got the following:

$ sudo find -type d -iname "*cursors*"
./DMZ-White/cursors
./redglass/cursors
./DMZ-Black/cursors
./handhelds/cursors
./whiteglass/cursors

OK. Go to Menu->Preferences->Customize Look and Feel->Mouse Cursor. Highlight which ever one you want and click Apply. Try them all if you like.

Rex Bouwense wrote:OK. Go to Menu->Preferences->Customize Look and Feel->Mouse Cursor. Highlight which ever one you want and click Apply. Try them all if you like.

I am looking for a console (terminal) way of doing this. The OS is having a squashfs filesystem, which is read-only. So I need to make the change permanently by editing some file and then build the squashfs again. Then boot it.

Sorry. You are way above my pay grade. Perhaps there is someone else out there with the information that you require.

In the first place we have no way to know how much experience you have when you ask a question. Since the forum is manned by volunteers who are not compensated in any manner, it may take a while (in some cases days) to get a response.
Secondly, if you do not like the response you get from a question that you posed, perhaps you did not provide enough information or details. There are not that many active members so when one does log on they do their best to answer any posts that they can. Please consider that the next time you send someone who tries to help you an email that is supposed to make us feel bad because you already know all of that stuff that was posted.
That being said, I have run out of Googlubuntu ideas. The closest that I can get to changing the mouse theme using CLI can be found here:
http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php? ... p=11928568
It talks about changing the the mouse theme in xfce. I have not tried it but it apparently worked there. Read the whole thread because corrections are made throughout.

Rex Bouwense wrote:Not sure if the hourglass is loaded with lxde. My cursor has always been a spinning circle. Let me see if I can find something.

edit: So far I have found this from Arch Linux on mouse cursor themes. I have not tried it yet and am still researching.
https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/X11_Cursors

Hi,

I am using Lubuntu 12.04 LTS and have the same problem. When I click on a icon to launch a program, be it from the start menu or from the panel, the mouse cursor does not change to a spinning circle (or anything else) to indicate that a program is launching. For beginners this is a very annoying problem.

I have tried to change cursor theme with lxappearance, using either DMZ black or white, and it does not solve the problem.

I have searched a lot through forums and read many things since weeks, it seems this problem have been reported by many people but had no solution so far.

Any help will be greatly appreciated.

Best regards