I never had any use for eye-candy hence no need to change themes or cursor icons. That is until my 78 year-old mother-in-law complained that the cursor was too small. I tried to change the size on default cursor and it did in some windows but not on desktop or system windows. The search began and I came across this you tube video that solved my problem, the link at the end. Here is a step by step of what I did courtesy of AbhiramH on you tube:
1-Go to http://gnome-look.org/ , click on X11 Mouse Themes in the left margin, and download a pointer theme you like. I needed a large cursor so I downloaded Large Mouse Cursor 1.0 http://gnome-look.org/content/show.php/Large+Mouse+Cursors?content=140787 2-go to download folder and extract to desktop, you now have a folder on desktop named as the downloaded theme ****MY extracted folder was named Large Mouse Cursor and I had to rename it Large-Mouse-Cursor (with dashes) to get this to work, it seems like spaces don't really work in this process. Themes without spaces worked without renaming. 3-Fire up the terminal, type sudo nautilus, enter password 4- once browsing as root in the file browser, copy the folder on the desktop and paste to usr/share/icons folder 5-close nautilus and terminal 6- Fire terminal again and type sudo gedit /usr/share/icons/default/index.theme 7-enter password 8- when the file opens, you will see Inherits=name of your current pointer theme, change that to Inherits=name of new pointer theme which is the name of the extracted folder you copied in step 4. Mine was Inherits=Large-Mouse-Cursors (again note the lack of space and addition of dashes) 9-save and exit. 10- now go to system/preferences/appearance, click customize, click pointer tab, and choose your new pointer theme, and exit 11- shut down and restart. Log in and out did not work for me. That's it, it should work. Other than a few exceptions above, I take no credit for this. All the credit goes to this dude AbhiramH on you tube http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CvS9kh_bMyM -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of compiz packagers, which is subscribed to compiz in Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/86184 Title: Can't change cursor style using Compiz. To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/compiz/+bug/86184/+subscriptions _______________________________________________ Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~compiz Post to : [email protected] Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~compiz More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp
