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.

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