said midi-pascal via tde-users: | For the icons on the desktop part, it is really easy to fix: | | Right-click on the desktop background, then choose "Configure | Desktop...", then "Behavior" on the left menu then unset the "Show | desktop icons" checkbox from the "General" tab. | | I don't like icons on my desktop so this solves the hurdle! | | Hope this helps! Thanks. I'd done that and it disposed of all of them *except* the trashcan. Though I have managed to be rid of it via the time-honored Linux method of I-dunno-I-just-did-some-stuff-and-then-it-worked, the replacement for linux >2.6, which was it-took-nine-hours-because-everything-in-Linux-takes-nine-hours. An improvement in time saving and every bit as exciting! Now I need to figure out how to get TDE to use x-cursors. I know it can, because I use redglass on my desktop machine. But there's some spin to it, because simply installing the cursors, pointers, etc. and pointing KControl at 'em doesn't do the trick. (We could really use a good cursor editor. It would need only to be a way to put a hot pixel into any approproately sized bitmap.) -- dep Pictures: http://www.ipernity.com/doc/depscribe/album Column: https://ofb.biz/author/dep/

said E. Liddell via tde-users: | On Fri, 24 Mar 2023 00:03:35 +0000 | | dep via tde-users <users(a)trinitydesktop.org> wrote: | > Now I need to figure out how to get TDE to use x-cursors. I know it | > can, because I use redglass on my desktop machine. But there's some | > spin to it, because simply installing the cursors, pointers, etc. and | > pointing KControl at 'em doesn't do the trick. (We could really use a | > good cursor editor. It would need only to be a way to put a hot pixel | > into any approproately sized bitmap.) | | I think I ended up adding an environment variable XCURSOR_THEME | with a value of "default" at one point because the GTK3 Adwaita | engine-thing kept trying to hijack the cursor theme and ignoring the | Control Center when I tried to kick it to the curb. Don't know if | that's relevant to your distro, though, or what value you need to get | something other than the default cursor. Weirdly, after a restart redglass and whiteglass appeared in the possibilities when choosing a cursor theme. In that the whole litany of cursor themes were available on my desktop machine, I did a little poking around and amazingly found the answer, sort of: while the various pointer graphics reside in /usr/share/icons in their respective subdirectories, this is not enough (though it's all you get if you install the Debian x-pointers or whatever it's called package). But they won't show up in KControl unless there is a file, in this case "redglass.theme" in /etc/X11/cursors. Which I now discovered, after reboot, that I had; also whiteglass.theme." But no [name].theme files for any of the other dozens that came over with the package (all of which exist in /etc/X11/cursors on my desktop machine). Well, I thought, if I wanted I could just copy all those [name].theme files into /etc/X11/cursors. Except for this: they don't exist anywhere else. They're not in /usr/share/icons with the cursors themselves, and locate tells me they aren't here at all. So while I've solved the immediate issue, in that there's a redglass.theme and redglass was what I was looking for, I've found a mystery. Anyway, redglass is now working nicely on the Thinkpad. So I guess I have a source for redglass.theme when I migrate the desktop machine. (Also, each of the cursors directories in /usr/share/icons appears to be signed, which is strange in and of itself, at least to me.) -- dep Pictures: http://www.ipernity.com/doc/depscribe/album Column: https://ofb.biz/author/dep/

said J Leslie Turriff via tde-users: | On 2023-03-23 19:03:35 dep via tde-users wrote: | > said midi-pascal via tde-users: | | [snip] | | > Now I need to figure out how to get TDE to use x-cursors. I know it | > can, because I use redglass on my desktop machine. But there's some | > spin to it, because simply installing the cursors, pointers, etc. and | > pointing KControl at 'em doesn't do the trick. (We could really use a | > good cursor editor. It would need only to be a way to put a hot pixel | > into any approproately sized bitmap.) | > -- | > dep | | Hear, hear! It ought to be as easy as the cursor editor in AmigaOS. After 25 years I still desperately miss the cursor editor program I bought -- yeah, it was a commercial app -- for the OS/2 WPS. It would let you make cursors and related stuff that was the opposite value of whatever they were over, so it would be white when over black, black when over white, and if on the edge maybe half black and half white. You could never lose your cursor. It's the single most useful computer utility I've ever owned and I miss it constantly. (I do not remember how it sorted its color opposites, but I remember that it was both effective and pleasant to use.) In a world in which you can get any of 100 different fart-noise simulators from the app store, you'd think there would be one person who would have developed a Linux equivalent to that little OS/2 utility, but if someone has I've been unable to find it. -- dep Pictures: http://www.ipernity.com/doc/depscribe/album Column: https://ofb.biz/author/dep/