[gentoo-user] Re: My X11 mouse icons have acquired unwanted borders. Help!
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
[gentoo-user] Re: My X11 mouse icons have acquired unwanted borders. Help!
On 10/16/2011 03:11 PM, Jesús J. Guerrero Botella wrote: I have no idea if the default X pointer theme has changed lately. Yes, gnome-themes-standard just updated to gnome3, which I don't much like. The gnome control center doesn't have any way to set a mouse pointer theme AFAICT, but the optional gcursor package does the job.
Re: [gentoo-user] Re: My X11 mouse icons have acquired unwanted borders. Help!
On Sun, Oct 16, 2011 at 05:08:51AM -0700, walt wrote: On 10/16/2011 03:15 AM, Alan Mackenzie wrote: Hello, Gentoo! I'm using Gnome 2.32.1 in X11. My mouse pointers have all acquired unwanted borders. That is to say, where there used just to be a solid black arrow, it is now surrounded by a black outline enclosing a white outline around the arrow. I don't like this! I didn't ask for it! I first noticed this problem while starting Firefox. It seemed to hiccup a bit (I think), and then all pointers (in all applications) went bad. I've looked inside Gnome preferences, but can't find a way to change the pointers back. I suspect this is an X setting rather than a Gnome one. 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. -- Alan Mackenzie (Nuremberg, Germany).
[gentoo-user] Re: My X11 mouse icons have acquired unwanted borders. Help!
On 10/16/2011 03:15 AM, Alan Mackenzie wrote: Hello, Gentoo! I'm using Gnome 2.32.1 in X11. My mouse pointers have all acquired unwanted borders. That is to say, where there used just to be a solid black arrow, it is now surrounded by a black outline enclosing a white outline around the arrow. I don't like this! I didn't ask for it! I first noticed this problem while starting Firefox. It seemed to hiccup a bit (I think), and then all pointers (in all applications) went bad. I've looked inside Gnome preferences, but can't find a way to change the pointers back. I suspect this is an X setting rather than a Gnome one. Have a look at gnome-extra/gcursor.
[gentoo-user] Re: My X11 mouse icons have acquired unwanted borders. Help!
On 10/16/2011 04:41 PM, Jesús J. Guerrero Botella wrote: 2011/10/16 Alan Mackenziea...@muc.de: Hi, Jesús. On Sun, Oct 16, 2011 at 01:41:21PM +0200, Jesús J. Guerrero Botella wrote: Does this happen on other WMs as well? Yes, it happens on xfce, too. That probably confirms it's not a gnome issue. The cursor is an X thing, in any case. Er, the used mouse pointer can be configured by almost any DE. You don't need to mess with X config files. And I'm pretty sure it's not just KDE that offers a GUI config dialog for this.
Re: [gentoo-user] Re: My X11 mouse icons have acquired unwanted borders. Help!
2011/10/16 Nikos Chantziaras rea...@arcor.de:
On 10/16/2011 04:41 PM, Jesús J. Guerrero Botella wrote:
2011/10/16 Alan Mackenziea...@muc.de:
Hi, Jesús.
On Sun, Oct 16, 2011 at 01:41:21PM +0200, Jesús J. Guerrero Botella
wrote:
Does this happen on other WMs as well?
Yes, it happens on xfce, too.
That probably confirms it's not a gnome issue. The cursor is an X
thing, in any case.
Er, the used mouse pointer can be configured by almost any DE. You don't
need to mess with X config files. And I'm pretty sure it's not just KDE
that offers a GUI config dialog for this.
I assumed that the problem of the OP is not that s/he's not able to
set a pointer theme. Maybe I was wrong in that assumption. If that's
the case then this can be easily sorted out by opening the gnome
control center as you said, and setting the mouse theme. There are
many themes in the portage tree as well.
It can be set manually in ~/.Xdefaults as well. OR just by putting the
theme in /usr/share/icons/default/ or ~/.icons/default/, if my memory
serves correctly. You can pick any mouse pointer theme from
{gnome,kde}-look as well and install it as described.
I have no idea if the default X pointer theme has changed lately.
--
Jesús Guerrero Botella
