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shuttleworthwannabe
April 6th, 2006, 09:23 PM
Has anyone thought of chnaging the default mouse cursor. That is the first thing I change after I install Breezy, to something more appealing like the Jaguar or OSX theme. I always wondered why GNOME has such hedious looking cursors comapred with KDE.
Ubuntu is one heck of OS, and should come with a signatory cursor, neat and elegant; not something that resembles an amputated hand and fingers?

Does anyone know of there is a windows (I know...) mouse cursor theme any to use in GNOME???

Dapper has made some improvment on this, but still in my view does not appeal to me. so I chnaged it.

Suggestions are welcome.
Thanks
htinn
April 6th, 2006, 09:36 PM
This is the one I always end up installing:

http://www.gnome-look.org/content/show.php?content=28310

Unpack into ~/.icons
Run System/Preferences/Mouse and change your pointer
shuttleworthwannabe
April 6th, 2006, 10:25 PM
cool, ir looks great, hybrid OSX and current dapper. Why not have this as options in the cursor selection. I have gcursor installed so it was easy to install. Thanks
IYY
April 10th, 2006, 02:24 PM
Ubuntu is one heck of OS, and should come with a signatory cursor, neat and elegant; not something that resembles an amputated hand and fingers?

Isn't the default cursor an arrow? What about it looks like an amputated hand to you?
shuttleworthwannabe
April 10th, 2006, 10:28 PM
i meant amputated fingers on the hand
tmahmood
April 12th, 2006, 09:36 AM
HAH!! I love the default cursor so much I also use it in my windows installation! Whenever I do a reinstall, I install this theme with it :) I just can't live without it
the_guy1
April 28th, 2006, 09:41 PM
This is the one I always end up installing:

http://www.gnome-look.org/content/show.php?content=28310

Unpack into ~/.icons
Run System/Preferences/Mouse and change your pointer

where do you find the icons folder??
ComplexNumber
April 28th, 2006, 10:27 PM
where do you find the icons folder?? its in your home directory (the '~' symbol means 'home directory'). the reason why you can't find it because you haven't set nautilus to show hidden files. in nautilus, go to preferences and tick 'show hidden files. then you will see .icons directory in /home/<username>/