Pointer Scheme

[Avi Schwartz]

Willis wrote:
> Caleb Marcus wrote:
>   
>> On Mon, 2007-12-03 at 19:11 -0600, Willis wrote:
>>     
>>> For Gutsy, is there an alternative to the standard pointer theme?  And 
>>> if so and it is not accessible by one of the graphical down loaders, how 
>>> to install it, please.
>>>
>>>     
>>>       
>> You can get them at http://gnome-look.org (look under X11 mouse 
>> pointers.) You put them in your ~/.icons directory, which you can get 
>> to by opening your home folder and going to View>Show Hidden Files. 
>> Then, you'll be able to see and select them in System>Preferences>Mouse 
>>     
> I have the x11 mouse pointers installed through Adept Manager and they 
> actually do not appear at that location but they appear at 
> System>Preferences>Cursor Selection but I am totally unable to change to 
> any of them there.  I tried Dbl Clkng, Select and click Install Theme 
> and select and click To Theme Folder, all to no avail.  I have even 
> tried rebooting after doing those steps with no results.  I v.7.04 it 
> worked perfectly.
>   
For me it was a two step process. This is how it worked for me:

1. I used System>Preference>Cursor Selection" to install the theme.
2. Then I went to System>Preference>Appearance and selected the newly 
installed theme.

Avi