said E. Liddell via tde-users: | On Fri, 24 Mar 2023 00:03:35 +0000 | | dep via tde-users <users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: | > Now I need to figure out how to get TDE to use x-cursors. I know it | > can, because I use redglass on my desktop machine. But there's some | > spin to it, because simply installing the cursors, pointers, etc. and | > pointing KControl at 'em doesn't do the trick. (We could really use a | > good cursor editor. It would need only to be a way to put a hot pixel | > into any approproately sized bitmap.) | | I think I ended up adding an environment variable XCURSOR_THEME | with a value of "default" at one point because the GTK3 Adwaita | engine-thing kept trying to hijack the cursor theme and ignoring the | Control Center when I tried to kick it to the curb. Don't know if | that's relevant to your distro, though, or what value you need to get | something other than the default cursor. Weirdly, after a restart redglass and whiteglass appeared in the possibilities when choosing a cursor theme. In that the whole litany of cursor themes were available on my desktop machine, I did a little poking around and amazingly found the answer, sort of: while the various pointer graphics reside in /usr/share/icons in their respective subdirectories, this is not enough (though it's all you get if you install the Debian x-pointers or whatever it's called package). But they won't show up in KControl unless there is a file, in this case "redglass.theme" in /etc/X11/cursors. Which I now discovered, after reboot, that I had; also whiteglass.theme." But no [name].theme files for any of the other dozens that came over with the package (all of which exist in /etc/X11/cursors on my desktop machine). Well, I thought, if I wanted I could just copy all those [name].theme files into /etc/X11/cursors. Except for this: they don't exist anywhere else. They're not in /usr/share/icons with the cursors themselves, and locate tells me they aren't here at all. So while I've solved the immediate issue, in that there's a redglass.theme and redglass was what I was looking for, I've found a mystery. Anyway, redglass is now working nicely on the Thinkpad. So I guess I have a source for redglass.theme when I migrate the desktop machine. (Also, each of the cursors directories in /usr/share/icons appears to be signed, which is strange in and of itself, at least to me.) -- dep Pictures: http://www.ipernity.com/doc/depscribe/album Column: https://ofb.biz/author/dep/ ____________________________________________________ tde-users mailing list -- users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe send an email to users-leave@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx Web mail archive available at https://mail.trinitydesktop.org/mailman3/hyperkitty/list/users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
