On 10/17/2011 07:12 PM, Alan Mackenzie wrote:
On Sun, Oct 16, 2011 at 05:08:51AM -0700, walt wrote:
Have a look at gnome-extra/gcursor.
Just done that. I've installed it, and it gives just four choices, all
of which have the border I don't like or (even worse) a shadow. Other
than that it gives a file selector, which doesn't seem to be of any use.
What I want is to just to get back the plain black icons I had before.
Install a cursor theme you like. They're in the x11-themes group.
Personally I use x11-themes/vanilla-dmz-xcursors.
The default X.Org cursors are in the package
"x11-themes/xcursor-themes". It provides three cursor themes:
"whiteglass", "redclass" and "handhelds".
The plain black cursor that most people refer to as "default" is
actually part of KDE. I assume that Gnome also had something similar
and they might have dropped them in recent versions (it might suck for
you, but people simply don't like them :-P) You can see what cursors
are installed in /usr/share/cursors/xorg-x11/. If it's not there, you
can't use it.
Again, I recommend you give "x11-themes/vanilla-dmz-xcursors" (white)
and "x11-themes/vanilla-dmz-aa-xcursors" (black) a try. It's what most
Gnome distros use (the Oxygen cursors of KDE are a disaster.)
To see all packages providing cursor theme:
eix x11-themes/ | grep -i cursor
