Greets, everybody . . .
The Debian install seems to be working just fine but for a couple littlish hiccups:
It didn't fix the occasional weirdness where my keyboard doesn't recognize some keys and seems endlessly stuck with others, which is fixed, for days, by a reboot. Changing keyboards doesn't help.
For more than a decade, there has been no problem with a link from a directory on the second hard drive to my /home directory. Now it won't and instead throws an error saying it's trying to overwrite itself. All this means is that I have to kind of set it up every time and can't go directly to it with the file manager. Partition is mounted at /media/sdb1 and I have the permissions needed. Weird.
Kmail crashes fairly frequently, reason unknown. Maybe Debian has a mail users setting. Haven't looked, and I can send and receive okay. The crash reporter, best I can tell, has never served any useful purpose.
But that's not what I'm here to ask about. I'm *still* trying to find where the mouse pointers found in the Mouse > Cursor themes in KControl are located on the drive. If I knew what they are called I could do a locate, but I don't.
I hope to take a pre-existing set, one that I don't and won't ever use, and experiment a little bit with it. In the happy long-ago days of OS/2, there was an actual OS/2 application -- $35, and I bet I'm the only one who bought a copy -- that not only let you design your own pointers easily, but let you put the hot pixel wherever you wanted and, more important and what I'd ideally like to achieve, let you color them such that wherever you were on the screen, the pointer would be the opposite of the color beneath it. On the fly. Instantly. Always. Totally visible. I do not know if X even allows anything like this, but it's worth wasting a day over.
Even if that isn't possible, I'd like to pull some of them up in the icon editor and change their colors so that they are really, really visible.
But I can't break them because I can't find where they live! Anyone know?
said deloptes via tde-users: | dep via tde-users wrote: | > Partition is mounted at /media/sdb1 and I | > have the permissions needed. Weird. | | /media should be used only for automatically mounted drives like USBs | Try creating a directory under /mnt/ and do your work there.
It automounts.
On 2024-09-19 20:23:20 dep via tde-users wrote:
In the happy long-ago days of OS/2, there was an actual OS/2 application -- $35, and I bet I'm the only one who bought a copy -- that not only let you design your own pointers easily, but let you put the hot pixel wherever you wanted and, more important and what I'd ideally like to achieve, let you color them such that wherever you were on the screen, the pointer would be the opposite of the color beneath it. On the fly. Instantly. Always. Totally visible. I do not know if X even allows anything like this, but it's worth wasting a day over.
Yes, indeed; how user-friendly. AmigaOS's Workbench had a similarly friendly tool for designing icons and pointers, just like OS/2.
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Anno domini 2024 Sun, 22 Sep 23:00:51 -0500 J Leslie Turriff via tde-users scripsit:
On 2024-09-19 20:23:20 dep via tde-users wrote:
In the happy long-ago days of OS/2, there was an actual OS/2 application -- $35, and I bet I'm the only one who bought a copy -- that not only let you design your own pointers easily, but let you put the hot pixel wherever you wanted and, more important and what I'd ideally like to achieve, let you color them such that wherever you were on the screen, the pointer would be the opposite of the color beneath it. On the fly. Instantly. Always. Totally visible. I do not know if X even allows anything like this, but it's worth wasting a day over.
Yes, indeed; how user-friendly. AmigaOS's Workbench had a similarly friendly tool for designing icons and pointers, just like OS/2.
There's an old tool called xcur2png, that let's you do about that ... well, from the commandline, anyway :) There was once a GIMP plugin, too, but that's not what I was interested in.
I put a copy on github)https://github.com/zwieblum/xcur2png
Nik
Leslie
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said Dr. Nikolaus Klepp via tde-users:
| There's an old tool called xcur2png, that let's you do about that ... | well, from the commandline, anyway :) There was once a GIMP plugin, too, | but that's not what I was interested in. | | I put a copy on github)https://github.com/zwieblum/xcur2png
Does it work in reverse, converting a .png into a cursor? (Actually, I'd prefer a .jpg-to-cursor program, because .png doesn't allow transparency.)
TDEIconEdit, sadly, has never done anything I've wanted done and I'm not sure it does anything at all with cursors. It certainly won't open them.
Anno domini 2024 Mon, 23 Sep 19:25:38 +0000 dep via tde-users scripsit:
said Dr. Nikolaus Klepp via tde-users:
| There's an old tool called xcur2png, that let's you do about that ... | well, from the commandline, anyway :) There was once a GIMP plugin, too, | but that's not what I was interested in. | | I put a copy on github)https://github.com/zwieblum/xcur2png
Does it work in reverse, converting a .png into a cursor? (Actually, I'd prefer a .jpg-to-cursor program, because .png doesn't allow transparency.)
JPG has no transparency, PNG has :)
For creating the xcursor from pngs you have an utuility "xcursorgen" in "x11-apps" - thta' where you define the hotspot, too. The whole workflow is like this:
xcursor file -> xcur2png -> png(s) + config file -> xcursorgen -> xcursor file
You could use GIMP to load the xcursor file, but IMO you cannot save it - which is kind of bad. Ther was an old plugin that could do it, but it only work on gimp < 2.7.
Nik
TDEIconEdit, sadly, has never done anything I've wanted done and I'm not sure it does anything at all with cursors. It certainly won't open them.
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said Dr. Nikolaus Klepp via tde-users:
| JPG has no transparency, PNG has :)
Oops. I got it backwards.
| For creating the xcursor from pngs you have an utuility "xcursorgen" in | "x11-apps" - thta' where you define the hotspot, too. The whole workflow | is like this: | | xcursor file -> xcur2png -> png(s) + config file -> xcursorgen -> | xcursor file
Do the X11-apps have, oh, I don't know, an X-11 front-end? I see that I have them installed, but the man pages are a little bit opaque.
| You could use GIMP to load the xcursor file, but IMO you cannot save it | - which is kind of bad. Ther was an old plugin that could do it, but it | only work on gimp < 2.7.
Ah. Like KOffice in the early days. The word processor would load anything but would save only to its own format that was read by absolutely nothing else. And the boys couldn't see how this was the slightest problem. The philosophy seemed to be victory or death. GIMP has deprecated many useful things over the years. Seems its plugin API hasn't been settled.
On Mon, 23 Sep 2024 19:25:38 +0000 dep via tde-users users@trinitydesktop.org wrote:
Does it work in reverse, converting a .png into a cursor? (Actually, I'd prefer a .jpg-to-cursor program, because .png doesn't allow transparency.)
I think you've got your image formats reversed. png supports transparency and translucency. jpeg does not.
Anyway, you may be looking for xcursorgen ( https://gitlab.freedesktop.org/xorg/app/xcursorgen , if your distro doesn't package it.)
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