Minimalist mouse cursor theme
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I'd like to install a X mouse cursor theme like:
I have Lubuntu with lxappearance, but failed to find an appropriate package for this.
mouse theme cursor
edited Mar 30 '14 at 0:43
Ramesh
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asked Mar 30 '14 at 0:39
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I'd like to install a X mouse cursor theme like:
I have Lubuntu with lxappearance, but failed to find an appropriate package for this.
mouse theme cursor
edited Mar 30 '14 at 0:43
Ramesh
23.5k32102182
asked Mar 30 '14 at 0:39
Pierre BPierre B
6302924
add a comment |
I'd like to install a X mouse cursor theme like:
I have Lubuntu with lxappearance, but failed to find an appropriate package for this.
mouse theme cursor
edited Mar 30 '14 at 0:43
Ramesh
23.5k32102182
asked Mar 30 '14 at 0:39
Pierre BPierre B
6302924
I'd like to install a X mouse cursor theme like:
I have Lubuntu with lxappearance, but failed to find an appropriate package for this.
mouse theme cursor
mouse theme cursor
edited Mar 30 '14 at 0:43
Ramesh
23.5k32102182
asked Mar 30 '14 at 0:39
Pierre BPierre B
6302924
edited Mar 30 '14 at 0:43
Ramesh
23.5k32102182
asked Mar 30 '14 at 0:39
Pierre BPierre B
6302924
edited Mar 30 '14 at 0:43
Ramesh
23.5k32102182
edited Mar 30 '14 at 0:43
Ramesh
23.5k32102182
edited Mar 30 '14 at 0:43
Ramesh
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23.5k32102182
asked Mar 30 '14 at 0:39
Pierre BPierre B
6302924
asked Mar 30 '14 at 0:39
Pierre BPierre B
6302924
asked Mar 30 '14 at 0:39
Pierre BPierre B
6302924
6302924
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(Update: including more details after hunting down the old cursors)
The 'original' X cursors are certainly in the basic packages for X server or X client libraries. It is a font, technically.
(It is in the bitmap font /usr/share/fonts/X11/misc/cursor.pcf.gz in package xfonts-base)
So there is no such package to install these old cursors separately, and you have them already if you have X.
What should exist, though, is a modern "cursor theme" just recreating these cursors in modern format. Maybe it is not aviable as a package, but as a tar.gz file on some desktop theme collection website.
Oh, realizing you did not explicitly ask to use the original/old cursors - so a theme "looking like them" (in a package) would fully solve your question.
answered Mar 30 '14 at 3:29
Volker SiegelVolker Siegel
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Yes, I have X. But I am not able to assign my mouse cursor to the image above. The customization tool lxappearance only offers DMZ black/white and a couple of others.
– Pierre B
Mar 30 '14 at 4:46
Indeed, lxappearance does not show the original cursors. Seems like they were in a very different format back then; So while they are still there, they are incompatible, (and not automaticaly converted or so, as I expected)
– Volker Siegel
Mar 30 '14 at 5:07
Ha! Found them... it really is a font,/usr/share/fonts/X11/misc/cursor.pcf.gz. It is a bitmap font - not scalable, and in an old format. But that is all not surprising as these cursors were part of the very first versions of X pretty sure...
– Volker Siegel
Mar 30 '14 at 5:23
An interesting hack you could try is provoking LXDE to fall back to use the X11 default cursors. Can you manually try configuring no mouse theme at all, or a nonexisting one? (Btw.: after some searching, I still did not find a modern mouse theme with the old X font cursors.)
– Volker Siegel
Mar 30 '14 at 11:21
add a comment |
I manage to get it working on my Linux.
Basically, I have downloaded the cursor files from http://blackevilweredragon.deviantart.com/art/X11-Cursors-25788898
Then used convert to make ... well convert them to .png
convert icon:no.cur normal.png
The next step is to make the .png a valid X cursor format, so I used xcursorgen
xcursorgen conf.in normal
conf.in looks like this:
34 10 4 normal.png 1000
I did this for all the cursors I was interested in, then overwrite the files in the current cursor theme:
root@alexi-XPS13-9333 15:59:40-[x11_cursors]# cp normal /usr/share/icons/DMZ-Black/cursors/left_ptr
Now it looks like this: 
NOTE: it worth mentioning that some programs will not follow the theme rules (mostly Skype) :)
Hope it helps.
answered Feb 11 '16 at 16:03
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(Update: including more details after hunting down the old cursors)
The 'original' X cursors are certainly in the basic packages for X server or X client libraries. It is a font, technically.
(It is in the bitmap font /usr/share/fonts/X11/misc/cursor.pcf.gz in package xfonts-base)
So there is no such package to install these old cursors separately, and you have them already if you have X.
What should exist, though, is a modern "cursor theme" just recreating these cursors in modern format. Maybe it is not aviable as a package, but as a tar.gz file on some desktop theme collection website.
Oh, realizing you did not explicitly ask to use the original/old cursors - so a theme "looking like them" (in a package) would fully solve your question.
answered Mar 30 '14 at 3:29
Volker SiegelVolker Siegel
10.8k33260
Yes, I have X. But I am not able to assign my mouse cursor to the image above. The customization tool lxappearance only offers DMZ black/white and a couple of others.
– Pierre B
Mar 30 '14 at 4:46
Indeed, lxappearance does not show the original cursors. Seems like they were in a very different format back then; So while they are still there, they are incompatible, (and not automaticaly converted or so, as I expected)
– Volker Siegel
Mar 30 '14 at 5:07
Ha! Found them... it really is a font,/usr/share/fonts/X11/misc/cursor.pcf.gz. It is a bitmap font - not scalable, and in an old format. But that is all not surprising as these cursors were part of the very first versions of X pretty sure...
– Volker Siegel
Mar 30 '14 at 5:23
An interesting hack you could try is provoking LXDE to fall back to use the X11 default cursors. Can you manually try configuring no mouse theme at all, or a nonexisting one? (Btw.: after some searching, I still did not find a modern mouse theme with the old X font cursors.)
– Volker Siegel
Mar 30 '14 at 11:21
add a comment |
(Update: including more details after hunting down the old cursors)
The 'original' X cursors are certainly in the basic packages for X server or X client libraries. It is a font, technically.
(It is in the bitmap font /usr/share/fonts/X11/misc/cursor.pcf.gz in package xfonts-base)
So there is no such package to install these old cursors separately, and you have them already if you have X.
What should exist, though, is a modern "cursor theme" just recreating these cursors in modern format. Maybe it is not aviable as a package, but as a tar.gz file on some desktop theme collection website.
Oh, realizing you did not explicitly ask to use the original/old cursors - so a theme "looking like them" (in a package) would fully solve your question.
answered Mar 30 '14 at 3:29
Volker SiegelVolker Siegel
10.8k33260
Yes, I have X. But I am not able to assign my mouse cursor to the image above. The customization tool lxappearance only offers DMZ black/white and a couple of others.
– Pierre B
Mar 30 '14 at 4:46
Indeed, lxappearance does not show the original cursors. Seems like they were in a very different format back then; So while they are still there, they are incompatible, (and not automaticaly converted or so, as I expected)
– Volker Siegel
Mar 30 '14 at 5:07
Ha! Found them... it really is a font,/usr/share/fonts/X11/misc/cursor.pcf.gz. It is a bitmap font - not scalable, and in an old format. But that is all not surprising as these cursors were part of the very first versions of X pretty sure...
– Volker Siegel
Mar 30 '14 at 5:23
An interesting hack you could try is provoking LXDE to fall back to use the X11 default cursors. Can you manually try configuring no mouse theme at all, or a nonexisting one? (Btw.: after some searching, I still did not find a modern mouse theme with the old X font cursors.)
– Volker Siegel
Mar 30 '14 at 11:21
add a comment |
(Update: including more details after hunting down the old cursors)
The 'original' X cursors are certainly in the basic packages for X server or X client libraries. It is a font, technically.
(It is in the bitmap font /usr/share/fonts/X11/misc/cursor.pcf.gz in package xfonts-base)
So there is no such package to install these old cursors separately, and you have them already if you have X.
What should exist, though, is a modern "cursor theme" just recreating these cursors in modern format. Maybe it is not aviable as a package, but as a tar.gz file on some desktop theme collection website.
Oh, realizing you did not explicitly ask to use the original/old cursors - so a theme "looking like them" (in a package) would fully solve your question.
answered Mar 30 '14 at 3:29
Volker SiegelVolker Siegel
10.8k33260
(Update: including more details after hunting down the old cursors)
The 'original' X cursors are certainly in the basic packages for X server or X client libraries. It is a font, technically.
(It is in the bitmap font /usr/share/fonts/X11/misc/cursor.pcf.gz in package xfonts-base)
So there is no such package to install these old cursors separately, and you have them already if you have X.
What should exist, though, is a modern "cursor theme" just recreating these cursors in modern format. Maybe it is not aviable as a package, but as a tar.gz file on some desktop theme collection website.
Oh, realizing you did not explicitly ask to use the original/old cursors - so a theme "looking like them" (in a package) would fully solve your question.
answered Mar 30 '14 at 3:29
Volker SiegelVolker Siegel
10.8k33260
edited Mar 30 '14 at 11:18
answered Mar 30 '14 at 3:29
Volker SiegelVolker Siegel
10.8k33260
answered Mar 30 '14 at 3:29
Volker SiegelVolker Siegel
10.8k33260
answered Mar 30 '14 at 3:29
Volker SiegelVolker Siegel
10.8k33260
10.8k33260
Yes, I have X. But I am not able to assign my mouse cursor to the image above. The customization tool lxappearance only offers DMZ black/white and a couple of others.
– Pierre B
Mar 30 '14 at 4:46
Indeed, lxappearance does not show the original cursors. Seems like they were in a very different format back then; So while they are still there, they are incompatible, (and not automaticaly converted or so, as I expected)
– Volker Siegel
Mar 30 '14 at 5:07
Ha! Found them... it really is a font,/usr/share/fonts/X11/misc/cursor.pcf.gz. It is a bitmap font - not scalable, and in an old format. But that is all not surprising as these cursors were part of the very first versions of X pretty sure...
– Volker Siegel
Mar 30 '14 at 5:23
An interesting hack you could try is provoking LXDE to fall back to use the X11 default cursors. Can you manually try configuring no mouse theme at all, or a nonexisting one? (Btw.: after some searching, I still did not find a modern mouse theme with the old X font cursors.)
– Volker Siegel
Mar 30 '14 at 11:21
add a comment |
Yes, I have X. But I am not able to assign my mouse cursor to the image above. The customization tool lxappearance only offers DMZ black/white and a couple of others.
– Pierre B
Mar 30 '14 at 4:46
Indeed, lxappearance does not show the original cursors. Seems like they were in a very different format back then; So while they are still there, they are incompatible, (and not automaticaly converted or so, as I expected)
– Volker Siegel
Mar 30 '14 at 5:07
Ha! Found them... it really is a font,/usr/share/fonts/X11/misc/cursor.pcf.gz. It is a bitmap font - not scalable, and in an old format. But that is all not surprising as these cursors were part of the very first versions of X pretty sure...
– Volker Siegel
Mar 30 '14 at 5:23
An interesting hack you could try is provoking LXDE to fall back to use the X11 default cursors. Can you manually try configuring no mouse theme at all, or a nonexisting one? (Btw.: after some searching, I still did not find a modern mouse theme with the old X font cursors.)
– Volker Siegel
Mar 30 '14 at 11:21
Yes, I have X. But I am not able to assign my mouse cursor to the image above. The customization tool lxappearance only offers DMZ black/white and a couple of others.
– Pierre B
Mar 30 '14 at 4:46
Yes, I have X. But I am not able to assign my mouse cursor to the image above. The customization tool lxappearance only offers DMZ black/white and a couple of others.
– Pierre B
Mar 30 '14 at 4:46
Indeed, lxappearance does not show the original cursors. Seems like they were in a very different format back then; So while they are still there, they are incompatible, (and not automaticaly converted or so, as I expected)
– Volker Siegel
Mar 30 '14 at 5:07
Indeed, lxappearance does not show the original cursors. Seems like they were in a very different format back then; So while they are still there, they are incompatible, (and not automaticaly converted or so, as I expected)
– Volker Siegel
Mar 30 '14 at 5:07
Ha! Found them... it really is a font,
/usr/share/fonts/X11/misc/cursor.pcf.gz. It is a bitmap font - not scalable, and in an old format. But that is all not surprising as these cursors were part of the very first versions of X pretty sure...– Volker Siegel
Mar 30 '14 at 5:23
Ha! Found them... it really is a font,
/usr/share/fonts/X11/misc/cursor.pcf.gz. It is a bitmap font - not scalable, and in an old format. But that is all not surprising as these cursors were part of the very first versions of X pretty sure...– Volker Siegel
Mar 30 '14 at 5:23
An interesting hack you could try is provoking LXDE to fall back to use the X11 default cursors. Can you manually try configuring no mouse theme at all, or a nonexisting one? (Btw.: after some searching, I still did not find a modern mouse theme with the old X font cursors.)
– Volker Siegel
Mar 30 '14 at 11:21
An interesting hack you could try is provoking LXDE to fall back to use the X11 default cursors. Can you manually try configuring no mouse theme at all, or a nonexisting one? (Btw.: after some searching, I still did not find a modern mouse theme with the old X font cursors.)
– Volker Siegel
Mar 30 '14 at 11:21
add a comment |
I manage to get it working on my Linux.
Basically, I have downloaded the cursor files from http://blackevilweredragon.deviantart.com/art/X11-Cursors-25788898
Then used convert to make ... well convert them to .png
convert icon:no.cur normal.png
The next step is to make the .png a valid X cursor format, so I used xcursorgen
xcursorgen conf.in normal
conf.in looks like this:
34 10 4 normal.png 1000
I did this for all the cursors I was interested in, then overwrite the files in the current cursor theme:
root@alexi-XPS13-9333 15:59:40-[x11_cursors]# cp normal /usr/share/icons/DMZ-Black/cursors/left_ptr
Now it looks like this:
NOTE: it worth mentioning that some programs will not follow the theme rules (mostly Skype) :)
Hope it helps.
answered Feb 11 '16 at 16:03
AndyAndy
57244
add a comment |
I manage to get it working on my Linux.
Basically, I have downloaded the cursor files from http://blackevilweredragon.deviantart.com/art/X11-Cursors-25788898
Then used convert to make ... well convert them to .png
convert icon:no.cur normal.png
The next step is to make the .png a valid X cursor format, so I used xcursorgen
xcursorgen conf.in normal
conf.in looks like this:
34 10 4 normal.png 1000
I did this for all the cursors I was interested in, then overwrite the files in the current cursor theme:
root@alexi-XPS13-9333 15:59:40-[x11_cursors]# cp normal /usr/share/icons/DMZ-Black/cursors/left_ptr
Now it looks like this:
NOTE: it worth mentioning that some programs will not follow the theme rules (mostly Skype) :)
Hope it helps.
answered Feb 11 '16 at 16:03
AndyAndy
57244
add a comment |
I manage to get it working on my Linux.
Basically, I have downloaded the cursor files from http://blackevilweredragon.deviantart.com/art/X11-Cursors-25788898
Then used convert to make ... well convert them to .png
convert icon:no.cur normal.png
The next step is to make the .png a valid X cursor format, so I used xcursorgen
xcursorgen conf.in normal
conf.in looks like this:
34 10 4 normal.png 1000
I did this for all the cursors I was interested in, then overwrite the files in the current cursor theme:
root@alexi-XPS13-9333 15:59:40-[x11_cursors]# cp normal /usr/share/icons/DMZ-Black/cursors/left_ptr
Now it looks like this:
NOTE: it worth mentioning that some programs will not follow the theme rules (mostly Skype) :)
Hope it helps.
answered Feb 11 '16 at 16:03
AndyAndy
57244
I manage to get it working on my Linux.
Basically, I have downloaded the cursor files from http://blackevilweredragon.deviantart.com/art/X11-Cursors-25788898
Then used convert to make ... well convert them to .png
convert icon:no.cur normal.png
The next step is to make the .png a valid X cursor format, so I used xcursorgen
xcursorgen conf.in normal
conf.in looks like this:
34 10 4 normal.png 1000
I did this for all the cursors I was interested in, then overwrite the files in the current cursor theme:
root@alexi-XPS13-9333 15:59:40-[x11_cursors]# cp normal /usr/share/icons/DMZ-Black/cursors/left_ptr
Now it looks like this:
NOTE: it worth mentioning that some programs will not follow the theme rules (mostly Skype) :)
Hope it helps.
answered Feb 11 '16 at 16:03
AndyAndy
57244
answered Feb 11 '16 at 16:03
AndyAndy
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answered Feb 11 '16 at 16:03
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57244
answered Feb 11 '16 at 16:03
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