HowTo: Change Mouse Cursor or Pointer Themes globally and persistently.

[vasa1]

galternatives is a good one.

Yes, Dennis' suggestion helped me get all aspects, pointer, insertion bar, hourglass in order. Even though every thing worked fine Unity 2D/3D, the Xfce session needed a fix with respect to the cursor/pointer.

Just one comment: Dennis mentioned using Advanced Settings (gnome-tweak-tool) to complete the Gnome side of things. I have it installed but couldn't find it easily in 4.10. I ended up running

gnome-tweak-tool

from the terminal.

[Dennis N]

galternatives is a good one.

I agree. Faster. Uses the same commands behind the GUI, and avoid making a mistake in typing in the commands yourself.

However, knowing the use of the underlying commands does give you a better understanding on what is going on.

[ohnonot]

i've changed my cursor theme with the methods described here. since then i changed window managers and display managers and start building my own session from scratch - the mouse cursor stays the same. great!

[ridgeland]

Thanks.
I'm using Debian Wheezy RC1 Xfce
After changing the mouse theme in the settings menu I got the double standard.
I created ~/.Xdefaults with just the two lines
#
Xcursor.theme: Chameleon-Pearl-Large
Xcursor.size: 36
#
Look in /etc/X11/cursors for the cursors you have installed (just drop the .theme)
After reboot the system is all the same mouse theme.