Cursor doesn't change

[OvidiuZeicu]

A more easy solution that worked for me in all tested windows:

1. open System > Preferences > Appearance, make your changes and save the custom profile with a name of your choice;
2. in the same window press Customize buton and, under Cursor tab, look for the name of your prefered cursor;
   
   • another way to find out this (especialy if you just manualy installed a cursor) is to go to /usr/share/icons and look for the folder containing your prefered cursor;
   
   
3. open terminal and type or paste:
   

   sudo gedit /etc/alternatives/x-cursor-theme

4. in x-cursor-theme replace DMZ-White (or whatever you have there) with the name of the cursor from step 2

   [Icon Theme]
   Inherits=Your-Cursor-Name

5. save the file and log out/in

There is no guarantee that this workaround will work for everybody, but is a very simple workaround that might just work and worth to try before more elaborate and complicated solutions.

[drillerccg]

This worked for me in Ubuntu Natty 11.04.
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.p...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