Lubuntu mouse cursor

Michael Rawson michaelrawson76 at gmail.com
Sun Jan 29 13:08:33 UTC 2012


Great!

I'll file the bug.

@David: "sudo apt-get install dmz-cursor-theme" works for me nicely. :)

Michael


On Sun, 29 Jan 2012 13:00:54 +0000
David Reimer <djreimer at gmail.com> wrote:

> Please please please!
> 
> One of the things I liked least (i.e., disliked most) when I moved to
> Lubuntu was the cursor. Particularly that little "hand" you get
> hovering over links. Dislike fairly intensely. Obviously I'm lazy,
> though, because I'm still using it.
> 
> Especially I dislike cursors that change shape over links, so that
> what appeared to be the "focal point" of the cursor (i.e., the tip of
> the arrow) alters (in Lubuntu, the left end of a horizontal line = top
> of "finger"). Disorienting.
> 
> FWIW.
> 
> David [djreimer | dajare]
> -- 
> David Reimer | Edinburgh, UK
> http://wiki.ubuntu.com/djreimer | https://launchpad.net/~djreimer
> 
> On 29 January 2012 11:32, Michael Rawson <michaelrawson76 at gmail.com> wrote:
> > I'm sure this probably gets asked a lot (but I'm new, so I'll ask again), but why doesn't Lubuntu have a reasonable mouse cursor? The default X one (I think that's what it is) is rather ugly. Even ripping off Ubuntu's one would be better than nothing.
> >
> > If people agree, I'll make a bug in lubuntu-artwork, or lubuntu-default-settings.
> >
> > Michael
> > --
> > Michael Rawson <michaelrawson76 at gmail.com>


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