Changing cursor in X?

[Magnus Therning]

>>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 :-)

I have packaged it, but I wasn't too impressed with it.

It seems there are two ways to set the cursor theme in GNOME/X (at
least). One uses ~/.icons/default[1] the other uses a setting in GNOME
(/desktop/gnome/perpherals/mouse/cursor_theme). Gnome-Themer only
modiefies the first, while it seems the latter would be a better way of
doing it (actually both are used in the startup, but GNOME will push its
setting later, which means that's what a user is left with).

gcursor uses the latter approach. I still haven't managed to install
mono (still broken deps in Hoary) so I don't know about GCursor# yet.

Somehow all of this feels like it's just a temporary solution though.
The final solution would be to get it into the gnome-theme-manager
capplet.

/M

1. To be entirely correct it seems there are two ways to set this up,
   both are described on the GNOME Desktop Support Wiki
   (http://gnomesupport.org/wiki/index.php/GnomeFrequentlyAskedQuestions).

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