8 Jul
2016
8 Jul
'16
4:32 a.m.
On Thursday 07 July 2016 15:51:36 Dr. Nikolaus Klepp wrote:
Hi Gene!
Am Donnerstag, 7. Juli 2016 schrieb Gene Heskett:
You've been most helpful, Nik, and I appreciate your patience with me and
my ancient wet ram.
On Thursday 07 July 2016 08:14:36 Dr. Nikolaus
Klepp wrote:
I feel honored :-)
Am Donnerstag, 7. Juli 2016 schrieb Steven
D'Aprano:
And another of your messages marked as "important" so it doesn't
get expired, thanks Nik.
Cheers, Gene Heskett Obviously somebody has created these mouse
cursors, and they
probably didn't do it by typing a series of zeroes and ones into
a file. Is there a standard "cursor editor" software
application? Or at least a standard way to create a cursor
theme?
You can use GIMP to modify/create Xcursor files. Install
adwaita-icon-theme, go to /usr/share/icons/Adwaita/cursors and
modify the images:
# cd /usr/share/icons/Adwaita/cursors
# for i in *; do mv $i $i.xmc
# chown <user>:<user> *
$ gimp /usr/share/icons/Adwaita/cursors/*.xmc
# cd /usr/share/icons/Adwaita/cursors
# for i in *.xmc; do mv $i ${i%.xmc}
You'll see in gimp that each icon has 3 resolutions: 48px, 32px
and 24px.
BTW, is there a way to change the default xcursor size from within
TDE? I have to put #Xcursor.size: 48
Xcursor.size: 32
in ~/.Xresources to get anything bigger than 24x24 pixel.
Nik But maybe I should also mention that the gnomes of
GNOME ignore the
Xresources and you'll need "dconf-editor" to get that working:
"dconf-editor", select "search" from the menu (which is at the top
of
the window), then a new search field will appear (at the bottom of the
window, sure) where you should type "cursor-size". Change it to
24/32/48, whatever you like.
I suspect Redhat has a special taskforce to find most creative ways to
break KISS.
I am sure of it.
Nik
Just one of the reasons I bailed on Fedora. I didn't mind having the bug
of the day if it was promptly fixed, but 20 of them, only 7 of which
ever got fixed, broke this camels back. About that time, LinuxCNC
bailed for Hardy, and I followed suit shortly. I found that I had maybe
5% of the troubles, which is a very welcome breath of fresh air. I am
not afraid to update 30 files every 4th day. Generally it Just
Works(TM).
Cheers, Gene Heskett
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