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Old 03-03-2003, 02:30 PM   #1
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Question Mouse Cursors in KDE / GNOME


Hi,
I see that a lots of stuff can be changed interms of appearence in both KDE/GNOME. One thing i always keep wondering is this.
While changing look & feel is nice & i am wondering how do i change the mouse pointers.

Like in M$does where you can customize a mouse cursor i don't see or i don't know how to do this in Linux / Kde.

Any ideas regarding this.
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Old 03-03-2003, 02:34 PM   #2
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it's only been possible in X 4.3, which was released a couple of days ago. there are only two official themes so far, but i guess people will start makign tons of them shortly. so if you want them with transparency etc.. upgrade to 4.3
 
Old 03-03-2003, 02:45 PM   #3
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So the mouse cursor in KDE is actully the mouse support/cursor provided by X??
Is there a possibility that KDE could do this all on its own using X for just mouse positioning & button handling ??
How dependent are KDE/GNOME or anyother WM for that matter on the X for this basic functionality.
Then what about the other input devices like Keyboard handling interms of their working with WM's.

Is there any website i could look at regarding this ??

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Old 03-03-2003, 02:50 PM   #4
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Under Gnome 2.0 you can change the size and colour of the pointer to a limited degree. You can do proper pretty pixmap themes with the Enlightenment window manager.
 
  


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