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Chapter 4, Related to X

#24 Convert CursorXP Themes for Use with Linux

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This creates a subdirectory called Golden-XCursors-3D-0.8. (If the version of

Golden Cursors has changed since the publishing of this book, the filename will

be different. Follow these instructions using the new filename.) Change to this

subdirectory with the following command, and list that directory’s contents:

$ cd Golden-XCursors-3D-0.8

$ ls

COPYING Gold README default

In this case, the author created a README file, but let’s ignore it for a

moment and use the same reasoning used earlier to identify the relevant direc-

tory. Look in the directory called Gold by issuing the following command:

$ ls Gold

cursors

There’s the cursors subdirectory that we’re looking for. So, Gold is the direc-

tory we want. Copy the Gold directory to the ~/.icons directory:

$ cp -a Gold ~/.icons

Again, if you want the Gold cursor theme to be available to all users, copy

Gold 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 necessary to write to these

directories.

Edit the ~/.icons/default/index.theme file to contain these two lines: ...