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 :-)

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.

Nik


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