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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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Spice Up Your Desktop with Creative Mouse Cursors #23
Chapter 4, Related to X
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After you install the cursor theme, you can delete the contents of this work
directory. Decompress the file with the following command:
$ tar zxvf 4805-RedDot.tar.gz
This creates two directories, RedDot and RedDotSource. For those not famil-
iar with it, the
–z option passed to GNU tar will uncompress gzipped files.
In general, once you unpack a cursor theme, the directories that matter are
the ones that contain a single subdirectory below them called cursors. In this
case, the RedDot directory has a subdirectory called cursors. That tells you
which directory you want to install. (For the curious, the RedDotSource
directory contains all the files the author of the theme used to create the Red
Dot theme.)
You can install the Red Dot cursor theme simply by copying the RedDot
directory and its contents to ~/.icons (the .icons directory in your home
directory):
$ cp -a RedDot ~/.icons
If you want the Red Dot cursor theme to be available to all users, copy RedDot
to one of the shared directories instead. (Given the previous example of how
this Linux distribution is configured, the shared directories are /usr/local/share/
cursors/xorg-x11, /usr/share/cursors/xorg-x11, and /usr/share/pixmaps/xorg-x11.
They might be different for your system.) You need to log in as root to do this;
otherwise, you won’t have the privileges ...
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