Solved mouse pointer size and colors

[fernandel]

Hi!

I like to change the mouse pointer size and color. I am using x11-wm/openbox and x11/tint. There are some options for mouse but not size or colour.
Any suggestions how to do it, please?
Thank you.

 

[Alexander88207]

Hello, fernandel

the cursor size can be changed with x11/xrdb.

You create an $HOME/.Xresources and write the size that you want in it.

Example:

Xcursor.size: 16

then run xrdb $HOME/.Xresources.

Some window managers dont do this automatically at start and then it have to be written to $HOME/.config/openbox/autostart or similar.

To change the cursor theme you have to create an $HOME/.icons/default/index.theme or /usr/local/share/icons/default/index.theme (to set it system wide) and write the cursor theme that you want in it. You have to use the folder names of the cursor theme that you want to specify.

Example:

[icon theme]
Inherits=Adwaita

 

[aragats]

Regarding the cursor theme: I like x11-themes/xcursor-themes.
Also, with graphics/gimp you can edit the actual cursor bitmaps in /usr/local/share/icons/*/cursors/.
For example, I use "redglass" theme, but the text selection cursor is not well-visible in black terminals, so I changed it to bright green.

 

[fjdlr]

Hi
I'm using x11-wm/openbox and x11/tint for using the them icons pointer for all application gtk2.0 gtk3.0 qt5...., I need to make :

$mkdir ~/.icons
ln -s /usr/local/share/icons/name-theme-pointer/cursors ~/.icons/default