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#1 2017-05-01 18:05

rowo
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Registered: 2017-05-01
Posts: 3

How can I change the mouse cursor theme?

I have installed the oxygencursors package und want to use "Oxygen Hot Orange" which is located in /usr/share/icons/oxy-hot_orange.
I have tried to manually put it into /usr/share/icons/default/cursor.theme copying the syntax  from /usr/share/icons/DMZ-Black/cursor.theme:

[Icon Theme]
Inherits=Oxygen Hot Orange

but it doesn't work. I also tried to change the content of /etc/alternatives/x-cursor-theme:

[Icon Theme]
Name = Oxygen Hot Orange
Comment = Oxygen mouse theme. Oxygenize your desktop!

but it still doesn't work. Then I put a symbolic link into /opt/trinity/share/icons/ and changed the default.tde

drwxr-xr-x  9 root root 4096 Apr 28 17:41 crystalsvg
lrwxrwxrwx  1 root root   31 Apr 28 17:39 default.tde -> /usr/share/icons/oxy-hot_orange
drwxr-xr-x 11 root root 4096 Apr 28 15:37 hicolor
drwxr-xr-x  7 root root 4096 Apr 30 19:47 ikons
drwxr-xr-x  7 root root 4096 Apr 30 19:47 kdeclassic
drwxr-xr-x  7 root root 4096 Apr 30 19:47 kids
drwxr-xr-x  5 root root 4096 Apr 30 19:47 locolor
drwxr-xr-x  3 root root 4096 Apr 30 19:47 mono
lrwxrwxrwx  1 root root   31 Mai  1 19:00 oxy-hot_orange -> /usr/share/icons/oxy-hot_orange
drwxr-xr-x  7 root root 4096 Apr 30 19:47 slick

but it still doesn't work. I also tried to put the string in quotes "Oxygen Hot Orange" but it still doesn't work.

Does anyone have an idea what to do to get it working?

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#2 2017-05-01 19:16

q4osteam
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Registered: 2015-12-06
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Re: How can I change the mouse cursor theme?

You can set it for a user:
Control Panel -> Peripherals -> Mouse -> Cursor theme tab

or system wide in terminal:
$ sudo update-alternatives --config x-cursor-theme

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#3 2017-05-02 15:30

rowo
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Registered: 2017-05-01
Posts: 3

Re: How can I change the mouse cursor theme?

Thanks for your reply. I recognize that the user settings overwrite the system defaults after login, which is the wanted behavior.

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