On Thursday 07 July 2016 15:51:36 Dr. Nikolaus Klepp wrote:
Hi Gene!
Am Donnerstag, 7. Juli 2016 schrieb Gene Heskett:
On Thursday 07 July 2016 08:14:36 Dr. Nikolaus Klepp wrote:
Am Donnerstag, 7. Juli 2016 schrieb Steven D'Aprano:
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
And another of your messages marked as "important" so it doesn't get expired, thanks Nik.
Cheers, Gene Heskett
I feel honored :-)
You've been most helpful, Nik, and I appreciate your patience with me and my ancient wet ram.
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