X Cursor Themes in KDE.

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Rinse

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Tuesday, November 4th 2003, 12:34am

X Cursor Themes in KDE.

Hi,
It looked so easy on kdelook.org, just download the cursor theme, place the cursors in ~/.icons/default/cursors and a index.theme file in ~/.icons/default.

So I downloaded this theme, did a make and make install, Copied the file and directory as mentioned above, and restarted KDE.

But in stead of just the new theme, X uses both the old thema and the new one: the old theme is used for the default cursor, and the new one for cursor actions, like resizing windows, opening tooltips, hour glass, etc...

How can I apply the new theme for all cursor actions?

I use SuSe 9.0 with the default kde 3.1.4.

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misophist

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Sunday, November 9th 2003, 3:47am

Cursors in KDE have always been a pain. They keep telling me it's fixed but it never works. If it weren't for the cursors in kde-look, I'd be blind by now. I just got SUSE 9 myself. I think they broke the kde-look cursor system. For one thing, a lot of hidden files are missing. To control cursor size, you need .xdefaults and I don't have it any more.

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hypercube

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Tuesday, March 9th 2004, 12:00pm

*Bump*

I've been frustrated by this problem myself with SuSE 9 + KDE 3.1.4 + XFree86 4.3.

It seems like kdm is overriding the xdm settings because changing the various xdm config files doesn't have any effect. Anyone figure this one out yet?

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Rinse

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Tuesday, March 9th 2004, 10:55pm

Well, my desktop curswor problem dissapeared as soon as I installed KDE 3.2 on my SuSE 9.0 box.

The cursor used by KDM can be changed by changing the global default cursor directory of SuSE ( /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/icons/ )

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hypercube

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Tuesday, March 9th 2004, 11:13pm

Quoted

Original von Rinse

Well, my desktop curswor problem dissapeared as soon as I installed KDE 3.2 on my SuSE 9.0 box.

Interesting. Unfortunately when I upgraded to KDE 3.2 on my SuSE box a couple of weeks ago it broke all kinds of stuff. Had to do a format/reinstall of SuSE to get a working KDE 3.1 again. :cry:

At this time SuSE's KDE 3.2 upgrade is only partially complete, i.e. it doesn't include kdebase3-SuSE, etc. That leads me to believe that when SuSE finally makes a full release of KDE 3.2 (maybe in SuSE 9.1) the cursors will be acting weird again.

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The cursor used by KDM can be changed by changing the global default cursor directory of SuSE ( /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/icons/ )

I'll try that. Which config file or environment variable will allow me to change that?

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Rinse

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Wednesday, March 10th 2004, 9:37am

kde 3.2.1 just came out.
Dunno if kdebase_suse is included, but I wil come back to that after installing the new version.

I don't expect that the cursor problem will come back in suse 9.1, since kde 3.2.x has a configuration module for this.
Also, kdebase-suse only contains bindings for the suse helpcenter and yast, etc. to make it integrate with KDE, nothing more.

to change the cursor in kdm, just rename the desired cursor directory to 'default'

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