animated cursors for GNOME?

[Ric Moore]

On Sat, 2011-01-01 at 21:35 +1100, Karl Auer wrote:
> Hi all.
> 
> My daughter has seen lots of whizz-bang custom cursors on the 'Net, but
> they are all for Windows. She wants amazing cursors to use on her Ubuntu
> system.
> 
> I've checked out the various GNOME cursor sets, including some very nice
> ones at gnome-look.org, but the basic problem is that they are
> "booooring" - i.e., they are just pointers :-)
> 
> Are there such things as animated dragon cursors, spinning beach balls
> and whatnot for GNOME? If so, where does one get them from?
> 
> I did find something in the repos that allegedly extracts icons and
> cursors from Windows resource bundles, but thought I would find out if
> there was a simpler way...

I've beat my brains out looking for a prancing unicorn icon, with
sparkles. Sadly, no luck. <chuckles> Ric


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