Public bug reported:
The gcursor program, if it ever worked, has not worked since the
Appearance Preference dialog was added to Gnome 2 (which selects themes,
backgrounds, and theme properties such as mouse pointer styles and
sizes). Xubuntu has a Settings Manager dialog which provides this
functionality, including selecting the mouse pointer.
There does not seem to be such a capability under Unity. There is a
mouse dialog which allows for other mouse settings, such as acceleration
and double-click settings, but does not allow for selecting among mouse
themes which have been installed or change mouse sizes.
Gcursor IS provided and can be installed from the Ubuntu Software Center
or apt-get etc. However it has never been fixed and finished, as
documented in the old bugs #138491 and #663373.
Finishing this program, using code from the Gnome 2 Preferences Dialog,
or the corresponding Xubuntu mouse dialog, would be one solution to the
lack in Unity.
I checked up on this problem due to a request on a Linux-related mail
list from a relative of someone with limited vision who needs a larger
cursor.
I'm reporting this from a system running 64-bit xubuntu:
Ubuntu version and kernel version
DISTRIB_ID=Ubuntu
DISTRIB_RELEASE=11.10
DISTRIB_CODENAME=oneiric
DISTRIB_DESCRIPTION="Ubuntu 11.10"
Linux compaq 3.0.0-12-generic #20-Ubuntu SMP Fri Oct 7 14:56:25 UTC 2011 x86_64
x86_64 x86_64 GNU/Linux
model name : AMD Athlon(tm) 64 Processor 3800+
cpu MHz : 1000.000
However I checked it out yesterday on a Dell netbook running Ubuntu
11.10 with Unity, running from a USB stick. This is
gcursor/oneiric uptodate 0.061-ubuntu5
ProblemType: Bug
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 11.10
Package: gcursor 0.061-ubuntu5
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 3.0.0-12.20-generic 3.0.4
Uname: Linux 3.0.0-12-generic x86_64
NonfreeKernelModules: nvidia
ApportVersion: 1.23-0ubuntu4
Architecture: amd64
Date: Mon Nov 7 16:11:48 2011
InstallationMedia: Xubuntu 11.10 "Oneiric Ocelot" - Release amd64 (20111012)
ProcEnviron:
PATH=(custom, user)
LANG=en_US.UTF-8
SHELL=/bin/bash
SourcePackage: gcursor
UpgradeStatus: No upgrade log present (probably fresh install)
** Affects: gcursor (Ubuntu)
Importance: Undecided
Status: New
** Tags: amd64 apport-bug oneiric
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gcursor does not work in Ubuntu 11.10, but a similar program is needed
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