2011/10/16 Nikos Chantziaras <[email protected]>:
> On 10/16/2011 04:41 PM, Jesús J. Guerrero Botella wrote:
>>
>> 2011/10/16 Alan Mackenzie<[email protected]>:
>>>
>>> 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
