Changing cursor in X?

[Magnus Therning]

On Mon, Dec 13, 2004 at 06:56:17PM +0100, Oliver Grawert wrote:
>hi,
>Am Montag, den 13.12.2004, 17:32 +0100 schrieb Magnus Therning:
>> I ran into this little tool a while ago[1], that can change the cursor
>> in X. Is there any other tool to do the same, preferably one packaged in
>> Ubuntu (Hoary) then? This really should be possible in GNOME, I think.
>> 1. http://qballcow.nl
>
>i dont think this is a really necessary task for users to do, but
>rather a nice to have thing....

Well, I think it rates equally high as anything else theme related (GTK
theme, icon theme) so since all the other things are there why isn't it
possible to change the cursor?

>i packaged gcursor a while ago and will see if it will get allowed to
>enter universe, if i got the src packages ready....
>even though this one was compiled on warty i think it will work on
>hoary as well:
>http://www.grawert.net/ubuntu/dists/warty/universe/binary-i386/gcursor_0.061-ubuntu1_i386.deb

I made an attempt at packaging it for Debian (and that's what I have
installed on my machine). There is an ITP for Debian (#284313 [1]).

>there is one different tool for this task, written in mono. 
>look at www.gnomefiles.org

I have managed to stay away from mono so far (no reason for it really,
I'm just hesitant). At the moment mono in Hoary is uninstallable, but
I'll take a look at that tool as soon as I can.

These are all tools I found on gnomefiles.org:

 gcursor http://www.gnomefiles.org/app.php?soft_id=125
 GCursor# http://www.gnomefiles.org/app.php?soft_id=109
 Gnome-Themer http://www.gnomefiles.org/app.php?soft_id=666

Especially the last one (Gnome-Themer) looks interesting. I'll take a
shot at packaging it today :-)

/M

1. http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=284313

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