HowTo set the System Default Cursor on SuSE 10.2

This will very different on another distro, so any one else can feel free to update it for another flavor

First off, I was testing out the PC Linux 2007 test1 release. and i wanted the cursor that they were using.

once i had signed in, opened xterm and called kcontrol. from that Control Center -> Peripherals -> Mouse :: found the name of the theme they were using

.

Then i started seaching through the /usr/share/ directory for that name and i found /usr/share/icons/<theme>

i tar -cf 'ed that folder and emailed it to myself.

on my system i tar -xf 'ed that archive to the /usr/share/icons/ folder

then i found in the /etc/sysconfig/windowmanager file 

## Type:    string 
## Default:
## Path: Desktop
## Description: default mouse cursor theme
#
# Name of mouse cursor theme for X11. Possible themes can be found
# in /usr/share/icons/
#
X_MOUSE_CURSOR="Industrial"

so i just changed that last part to the name of the <theme> folder

and rebooted.

also i'm running xfce, so it inherits the system theme, gnome and kde might managed to use their own.

HowTo/CusrsorConfig (last edited 2007-01-22 17:26:14 by VincentBatts)