Convert a mouse pointer theme from Windows

Bratmon · 03-18-2011, 09:25 PM

Hi. I'm trying to convert a custom mouse pointer theme from Windows to X11. I already turned all the .curs to .pngs and figured out how to use xcursorgen. My problem stems from where to place the generated files. (I use LXDE) I copied a working theme from /usr/share/icons/redglass/cursors to ~/.icons/mycursorpack/cursors and replaced some of the more obvious ones, like bottom_left_corner and cross. Here's my problem: how do I know which of the files go to which cursor. I saw this:

Code:

$ls ~/.icons/mycursorpack/cursors
based_arrow_down     cross         left_ptr        right_tee          top_side
based_arrow_up       dot           left_ptr_watch  sb_h_double_arrow  top_tee
bottom_left_corner   dotbox        left_side       sb_right_arrow     watch
bottom_right_corner  double_arrow  left_tee        sb_up_arrow        X_cursor
bottom_side          draped_box    ll_angle        sb_v_double_arrow  xterm
bottom_tee           fleur         pencil          shuttle
center_ptr           gumby         right_ptr       top_left_corner
circle               hand2         right_side      top_right_corner

and now I don't know what all those do. For example, what the hell's a fleur? Google was unhelpful, and the relevant freedesktop.org standard (http://www.freedesktop.org/wiki/Spec...ns/cursor-spec) seems to be completely ignored. Any advice, I'm at a loss here?

H_TeXMeX_H · 03-19-2011, 04:34 AM

You should download some themes and take a look at the various pointers used, that's what I had to do. I also made plenty of symlinks.

Bratmon · 03-19-2011, 04:56 PM

Does there happen to be a way to convert cursor files to images I can use?

H_TeXMeX_H · 03-20-2011, 04:05 AM

See:
http://www.linuxquestions.org/questi...format-866816/

Bratmon · 03-21-2011, 04:44 PM

That thread gives instructions on how to convert .cur to .png to xcursor, but there appears to be no way to go from xcursor back to png.

H_TeXMeX_H · 03-22-2011, 11:50 AM

Unfortunately the Xcursor format (see man page), although reasonably well documented, is not an image format, so converting from it to something else is not straightforward. I don't know of a program that can convert them back.