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List:       freedesktop-xorg
Subject:    Re: GUI app that changes cursor theme (desktop independent)?
From:       David Woodfall <dave () dawoodfall ! net>
Date:       2013-08-08 4:44:10
Message-ID: 20130808044410.GG32264 () Blackswan
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On (08/08/13 04:48), Dave Woodfall <dave@dawoodfall.net> put forth the proposition:
>On (07/08/13 15:16), Alan Coopersmith <alan.coopersmith@oracle.com> put forth the proposition:
>>On 08/ 7/13 02:42 PM, David Woodfall wrote:
>>>On (07/08/13 17:29), Tim Hawes <tim@easyfreeunix.com> put forth the proposition:
>>>>xsetroot -cursor <cursor_file> <maskfile>
>>>>
>>>>standard X11 cursor files and mask files are usually found under
>>>>/usr/include/X11/bitmaps/
>>>>
>>>>ex. xsetroot -cursor /usr/include/X11/bitmaps/left_ptr
>>>>/usr/include/X11/bitmaps/left_ptrmsk
>>>
>>>I guess I'd have to set all the variations of left_ptr then,
>>>individually? Left_ptr, right_ptr and so on?
>>
>>xsetroot just sets the current cursor image.   To set a theme, I think
>>you'd instead want:
>>	echo "Xcursor.theme: whiteglass" | xrdb -merge
>
>Unfortunately that doesn't work. It looks like I'll to delve into how
>KDE systemsettings does it.

I finally found an application that does it: lxappearance from LXDE.



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