Cool Cursors

[Guest Joe Noob]

Im having a hard time installing these cursors I found, there are two sets of instrutions.

1 For general use :

#Creat the directory ~/.icons/default

#Place index.theme into ~/.icons/default

#Place cursors into ~/.icons/default/cursors

#Restart KDE

 

2 Instrutions for Suse 8.2:

#Go to /usr/lib/X11/icons/ and rename existing folder default for backup

#Extract the downloaded tar.bz2 file so now theres two files default and cursors ,in my case I have "blue" instead of "cursors".

#Place /default into /usr/lib/X11/icons

#Place /cursors into /usr/lib/X11/icons/default

#Restart KDE

 

Ok seams pretty staight foward but I couldnt do the general / comand line and I cant find the /icons file in mandrake 9.1

 

Could someone who actually nows what theyre doing, clear this up or translate into a mandrake install.

Thanks

PS check these out at KDElook.org/mouse themes they are very cool

[BobGuy©]

Could someone who actually nows what theyre doing, clear this up or translate into a mandrake install.

 

It would help if we knew what the name of theme you are trying to install is. :roll:

 

As a user...

 

$ XFree86 -version

XFree86 Version 4.3.0

Release Date: 27 February 2003

X Protocol Version 11, Revision 0, Release 6.6

 

Here is how I installed the 6240-Crystalcursors.tar.gz theme.

 

$ cd download/tarball <--where the theme is.

$ ls

6240-Crystalcursors.tar.gz

extract the tarball here, then cd into the directory.

$ cd Crystalcursors

$ ls

CREDITS cursors/ gray_src/ green_src/ Makefile README sources/

 

[bob@home Crystalcursors]$ pwd

/home/bob/download/tarball/Crystalcursors

 

$ make green

make -C green_src

make[1]: Entering directory `/home/bob/download/tarball/Crystalcursors/green_src'

xcursorgen bd_double_arrow.conf ../cursors/bd_double_arrow

xcursorgen bottom_left_corner.conf ../cursors/bottom_left_corner

xcursorgen bottom_right_corner.conf ../cursors/bottom_right_corner

xcursorgen xterm.conf ../cursors/xterm

xcursorgen watch/watch.conf ../cursors/watch

xcursorgen left_ptr_watch/left_ptr_watch.conf ../cursors/left_ptr_watch

make[1]: Leaving directory `/home/bob/download/tarball/Crystalcursors/green_src'

 

$ make install_green

make install -C green_src

make[1]: Entering directory `/home/bob/download/tarball/Crystalcursors/green_src'

#Create necessary directories

if test ! -d /home/bob/.icons ;then mkdir /home/bob/.icons; fi

if test ! -d /home/bob/.icons/default ;then mkdir /home/bob/.icons/default;fi

if test ! -d /home/bob/.icons/crystal ;then mkdir /home/bob/.icons/crystal; fi

if test ! -d /home/bob/.icons/crystal/cursors ;then mkdir /home/bob/.icons/crystal/cursors; fi

#Copy the cursors

ln -sf /home/bob/.icons/crystal/cursors/left_ptr_watch /home/bob/.icons/crystal/cursors/08e8e1c95fe2fc01f976f1e063a24ccd #mozilla's left_ptr_watch

make[1]: Leaving directory `/home/bob/download/tarball/Crystalcursors/green_src'

Green version of CrystalCursors is correctly installed.

#

Close out the konsole, then logout, login kde.

Shazam I now have the green crystal mouse theme. :D

Have fun :)

[Guest Joe Noob]

Oh sorry I wasnt thinking, but I guess it makes sence someone on this board has probably already installed these.

First theyre the 5532Blue-Grass XCursors or the silver ones I havent really made up my mind yet.

Second one of the things I was confused about is it looks like the icon file is in the home directory and not under root, that what it looks like with your example so how do you tell X to use these cursors?

See I was trying to use the Suse example because they put the files in X11 and then I thought you would just have to referance the cursor file in the X11 config-4 file.

I'll try again this afternoon when I get home

Ps thats a goog tip ,to "ls" when your in the directory to make sure youve done things right

[Guest Joe Noob]

Ok cool Im half way there, I get the blue glass cursors but only when Im in a root window ie after Ive opened control panel with my root pass word or Ive opened up Konqueror in Super user mode and only when the cursors over that window.

Can someone tell me how set it to work as just a user as well

[Guest Joe Noob]

Got it thanx