Thanks for your reply. I got it working like this (it's really easy): I found the theme info in /usr/share/icons (and /usr/share/themes) but on my system the cursors are "xcursors" and are found in /usr/share/cursors/xorg-x11. I don't know if x cursors are different than Gnome's regular themes or what but that's where they are. 1) cp -rv redglass redglass-custom 2) Fortunately the cursors are all different files so you can just copy / rename / delete / move / etc. to your heart's desire. In redglass the weird horizontal arrow is "hand2" and the normal cursor is "left_ptr". So: shred -uvn 500 hand2 cp left_ptr hand2 The "shred" command is only necessary if you want to teach the ugly old cursor a lesson it will never forget. If vengeance on file system objects isn't your style you can leave the one out. I didn't know which files were which (maybe the names are standard, I don't know) and didn't know what program could view them (eog didn't work) so I wrote one >.> . I've attached it. It requires glut (sorry... not an X programmer). Maybe the attachment won't get stripped, otherwise Xcursor technical info can be found here: http://www.xfree86.org/4.3.0/Xcursor.3.html (or just feel free to email me and I'll send it to you). It's very straightforward. Jason On Feb 11, 2008 2:34 AM, Magnus Therning <magnus therning org> wrote: > > Jason Cipriani wrote: > > Hello... I am using the "Red Glass" custom cursor theme, but I don't > > like the horizontal arrow that appears when I mouse over things like > > hyperlinks in web pages. Is there an easy way to replace the > > horizontal cursor with the normal arrow? A cursor image file somewhere > > that I can copy? > > > > I am using Gnome 2.20.3 on Gentoo. > > Thanks! :) > > I think you'll have to copy the full theme and then modify the > individual cursor. On my (Debian) system cursor themes are located in > /usr/share/icons. I can create a personal copy by copying it to > ~/.icons. I'm sure that information about the format of the files in > there is available somewhere on the Gnome web pages. > > /M > > -- > Magnus Therning (OpenPGP: 0xAB4DFBA4) > magnus＠therning．org Jabber: magnus．therning＠gmail．com > http://therning.org/magnus > > What if I don't want to obey the laws? Do they throw me in jail with > the other bad monads? > -- Daveman > >
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