jmr0311 Posted December 6, 2005 Report Share Posted December 6, 2005 (edited) Hi, Can somebody tell me how to change my mouse pointer? After installing Mandriva 2006, I have a nasty yellow cursor that you can hardly see. I have tried changing the themes already with no success. Jose Edited December 8, 2005 by jmr0311 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
aioshin Posted December 6, 2005 Report Share Posted December 6, 2005 open.. systems - configurations - config your desktop - peripherals - mouse - cursor theme Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jmr0311 Posted December 6, 2005 Author Report Share Posted December 6, 2005 (edited) I already try changing the theme for the cursor under "config yor desktop" with no change. I even tried the cursor that is red in color, looking to see if it will change but it didn't change all do I have to say that the size of the arrow did change from small to large but not the color. The friking transparent yellowish color still there and is driving me crazy. Jose Edited December 6, 2005 by jmr0311 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jmr0311 Posted December 8, 2005 Author Report Share Posted December 8, 2005 Last thing I did was to update the Xorg X11 to version 6.9 which I read have the corrections to this problem but I still have the problem in my system. I don't know what else to do or maybe something I have to edit in my system or erase perhaps. Can any one lend me a hand in getting this problem fix? I'm really tired of looking at my cursor and not able to see it when I'm passing over white backgrounds. Jose Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest armando2002 Posted December 8, 2005 Report Share Posted December 8, 2005 My cursor is the same way. I also tried themes and config settings with no help. I'm running 2006. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kieth Posted December 12, 2005 Report Share Posted December 12, 2005 Try this. In an editor (Kwrite?), edit /usr/share/icons/default/index.theme. Mine states: [icon Theme] Inherits=wonderland Just erase "wonderland" (which is in /usr/share/icons) and type in another icon name. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jmr0311 Posted December 13, 2005 Author Report Share Posted December 13, 2005 Thank you for your suggestion. I did as you said but it didn't fixed the problem. I'm still looking at a "Translucent greenish mouse". Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kieth Posted December 13, 2005 Report Share Posted December 13, 2005 If you want, you could download a new mouse theme and load it. I used to have to do that all the time with the older Mandrakes because they never recognized my mouse. Here's a link to Kde-look.org Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jbuckley2004 Posted January 14, 2006 Report Share Posted January 14, 2006 I'm having the exact same problem (can't see the semi-transparent mouse cursors) with an old ATI 7000 card in Mandriva 2006 Free. I've successfully installed new icons (the shapes change), and I've edited the index.theme file so that it inherits KDE-Classic, but nothing changes that transparent color. Is this a driver issue? Anyone able to change the color or their curors, like, to red-glass? thanks. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
daniewicz Posted January 14, 2006 Report Share Posted January 14, 2006 I an not running 2006. I have Mandriva 2005 and it does not exhibit the problem you folks are reporting so I am just taking a guess here. B) I quick look on the web and I see talk of cursor_themes-0.0.5-2mdk. Has anyone tried to install this? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
rogerh Posted January 18, 2006 Report Share Posted January 18, 2006 Hello, I think I encountered your problem during my 2006 setup. When I changed screen resolution (in the control center - monitor) from 16bit color to 64bit color I got what it sounds like you've got. Changed it back and things returned to normal. That resolution on my 10.0 Official on exactly this same hardware worked fine - not sure what the problem is on 2006. Reducing the color bits just may work for you, unless you need the 64bit color....... Hope it helps -- Roger Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jbuckley2004 Posted January 26, 2006 Report Share Posted January 26, 2006 rogerh Thanks for the tip, but it doesn't seem to have worked. I have this vague memory that at install time I configured the ATI card to use 64 bit color. KDE tells me now that it was at 16 bit. Changing it back and forth gave me some pretty florescent backgrounds, but did not change the cursor (it's still transparent) when I rebooted. I also have a vague memory Mandrake/Mandriva has perennially had difficulties in changing the graphics "on-the-fly" and one has to go through the re-install to change it. ARG! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest cyclic_redundancy_check Posted February 22, 2006 Report Share Posted February 22, 2006 Re Transparent (barely useable) cursor I have this problem also It seems that no sucessful solution has been posted? I have 2 other machines build from the same 2006 distribution. The problem machine has a newer ATI Radeon The ok machines have older ATI Radeons Is this the pattern? Is there a problem with trasparent cursors with newer Radeon cards? Please can anyone help? Regards Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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