How to Change Mouse Cursor Theme on Ubuntu 11.10 Oneiric Ocelot

[Hugh Sasse]

On Wed, 18 Jan 2012, Petra Ritter wrote:

> Hi,
> 
> Is this the only Way to change the Mouse-Corsor in color and size?
> http://www.ubuntubuzz.com/2011/12/how-to-change-mouse-cursor-theme-on.html
> 
> I need a black and a bigger Mouse cursor, to be able to see it.
> I don't need the hight color thema I just nedd a black and big Mouse Cursor.
> 
> Thanks for the help
> Best regards
> Petra Ritter
> 
I've not had chance to do much on Ubuntu, but have found the big X
cursor I used on the Suns here.  The cursor and the mask file
are attached. I think I started out from this:

http://www.tldp.org/HOWTO/X-Big-Cursor.html

although the link to the copy I was pointing at is now broken.

I created a big cursor with the X bitmap editor and used that, but
my problem was that it only worked on the root (background) window,
and when I went into applications they used their own cursors, which
were small.  I used xeyes some of the time to find the cursor, but
this was "suboptimal".  I never really did find a good answer to
this one.  The magnifier helped a bit.

Hopefully that Howto, although old (1997), will be a stopgap until
you get a more useful answer from someone else.

        Hugh
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