
Spice Up Your Desktop with Creative Mouse Cursors #23
Chapter 4, Related to X
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Some distributions have the inconsiderate habit of placing
the cursor themes in the same directory as icon themes (dif-
ferent types of KDE or GNOME icons for your desktop). If
your Linux distribution does this, not all of the theme names
you find in the directory will be cursor themes. You’ll know
you’ve picked an icon theme by mistake if your desktop
starts up with the default mouse cursors rather than a new
cursor theme.
Set a Personal Default Theme
Each user can set his own default cursor theme by creating or modifying a file
called ~/.icons/default/index.theme (recall that the ~ represents your home
directory). This index.theme file is the one that tells your system which cursor
theme to use. Create the directories you need with the following command:
$ mkdir ~/.icons ~/.icons/default
Now use your favorite editor to create the index.theme file in the ~/.icons/
default directory. Place the following two lines in the file:
[Icon Theme]
Inherits=whiteglass
This example assumes you have a cursor theme called Whiteglass installed on
your system (the earlier example showed that it exists on my system, because
the directory name whiteglass appears in the /usr/share/cursors/xorg-x11 direc-
tory that contains all the globally available cursor themes). Obviously, if you
don’t have the Whiteglass theme on your system, this ...