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Linux Desktop Hacks
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Linux Desktop Hacks

by Nicholas Petreley, Jono Bacon
March 2005
Beginner to intermediate content levelBeginner to intermediate
342 pages
15h 55m
English
O'Reilly Media, Inc.
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Chapter 4, Related to X
#23 Spice Up Your Desktop with Creative Mouse Cursors
HACK
Tips for Users of NVIDIA Display Cards
It is not uncommon for people with NVIDIA display cards (such as the
GeForce series) to use the accelerated NVIDIA driver available from the
NVIDIA web site. If you’re using the accelerated driver, not the default
driver that comes with X11, your mouse cursors can tend to flicker.
Here’s how to fix that problem. Find the
Device section for your NVIDIA
card in your X11 configuration file. This file is called XF86Config,
XF86Config-4,orxorg.conf, depending on the X server you are using, and it
is usually found in the /etc/X11 directory. Look for the
Device section where
you define the video card driver. It should contain these lines, although not
necessarily exactly as they appear here:
Section "Device"
Driver "NVIDIA"
Option "HWCursor" "On"
Turn off the HWCursor option so that it looks like the following:
Option "HWCursor" "off"
The next time you start up your desktop, the flicker problem should be
gone.
Get Custom Cursor Themes, Example 1
One popular source of custom cursor themes and other eye candy is a site
called KDE-Look (http://www.kde-look.org). The URL for cursor themes is
http://www.kde-look.org/index.php?xcontentmode=36. Find a cursor theme
you like and download it. Though this web site is KDE-focused, the cursor
themes work on any X server that meets the earlier criteria. ...
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