cursor customization

I moved from XFCE to LXQT to try new thing out. For some reason LXQT don't respect any cursor theme I try. I tried some things with the LXQT community before come here. What I did so far: beastie@BattleStar-Lat54 --> ~ Ψ cat /usr/local/share/icons/default/index.theme...

I wasn't able to change the mouse cursor on my light weight window manager, even with the instructions on the forums until recently. The size needed to be larger. There's two different places that the mouse size and style can be changed: on descendant windows/applications, and for the background...

Tired of the old black cursor theme of X , I read..here..and there and become to this to make the X cursor theme, even in applications like chromium or firefox tested in fvwm3 first of all , download a cursor theme mine is this: Bibata modern-Ice icon theme untar in ~/.icons next put in...

Hello guys! I recently installed my first BSD System with FreeBSD! Almost everything worked perfectly, but I got one minor problem. I noticed that, when I installed Visual Studio Code the font for Firefox, Chromium, PavuControl changed. They use the same font as VSCode (as can be seen in the...

My laptop is an Optimus capable and there is no way to disable Intel graphics from the BIOS (I am also willing to use both whenever suits). I followed the handbook and also tried all relevant posts for this issue with NVIDIA, but nothing worked. I was only able to reach to a blank screen with a...

Greetings, For many years now I have been using X's default cursor. Basically X pulls this cursor from somewhere when you don't have selected theme for display or if you don't have any themes installed. Some programs can do cool stuff with it like changing its color when you want it to: But...

Hello friends, I've recently installed FreeBSD inside of VirtualBox. I just installed the emulators/virtualbox-ose-additions port and set my graphics controller to VboxVGA. Then, when I started chrome, which I installed from ports, I noticed something strange was happening. The cursor was being...

Hi! I like to change the mouse pointer size and color. I am using x11-wm/openbox and x11/tint. There are some options for mouse but not size or colour. Any suggestions how to do it, please? Thank you.

There are "several suggested ways" to make the default X cursor BIG so you can see it if it's tiny. The below script allows selection of "Use Type1 for big cursor" or "misc big pcf cursor" methods. $ x-cursor-big 400 Type1 I think misc works and looks nicer for 4k than Type1: $...

Is there any simple way to add a collect of cursors for LXDE? I see a choice of four, but would like something which is quite large. Any suggestions, or is there any way of increasing the size of those available?

Hello everyone, I'm new there. I solicit your help. I'm trying to make run KDE5 on my computer and I'm having difficulties. I followed the topic with Fissy, having same problem, but it still doesn't work. KDE is starting. But when it comes to log in, I enter the password, press enter and...

Hello ! I have a problem that has been turning my head for 1 day ... That's all, I tried to install FreeBSD on a VMWare virtual machine. I want to install KDE5. My installations and configurations: -xorg -kde5 -sddm sysrc dbus_enable="YES" sysrc hald_enable="YES" sysrc sddm_enable="YES" I...

My shell is /bin/sh. If I open uxterm and try to move the cursor back by one word using Alt-b, the letter "â" (a-circumflex) is inserted instead. The cursor is not moved. There is clearly something wrong. When I do the same thing in xterm instead, the cursor moves back by one word as expected...

Hey everyone, using Awesome wm in FreeBSD 12.2 and loving it! How ever I'm trying to troubleshoot one problem. I set the mouse cursor theme to Adwaita with lxappearance and put this in my .Xresources Xcursor.theme: Adwaita Xcursor.size: 16 At startup the Adwaita mouse appears but quickly...

Hi all (Newbie here) I've just managed to install FreeBSD, and I find that the mouse cursor is correctly themed, except when it's over a Window's tittle bar or desktop background, where it seems to be a non themed default set (black, w/white border). I've tried some searches but found nothing...

I'm not sure what is going on. After running startx everything starts up normally. I've verified the resolution/screen size is correct. Yet, when I move the mouse off screen, specifically on the righthand side. It disappears and doesn't reappear. I've specifically added (code below) to to the...

Hi guys, I installed fbsd 12.1 + KDE + SDDM. The default cursor theme is Breeze and I don't like it, so I set it by system settings=>Cursors on Adwaita theme. The problem is it display the adwaita theme only after login because in that moment starts personal setting so I can see it. Before...

FreeBSD-12-RELEASE-p5, mate-1.20.3 I wish to increase the size of the mouse pointer on my desktop display(s). I have the mouse configured to ping when the control key is pressed but I would still prefer a larger pointer icon. The system menu of the desktop does not appear to provide any way...

My mouse cursor is too small and sometimes it is difficult to see. How do I get a bigger mouse cursor, preferably one surrounded by a yellow circle like a highlighter?

I have started using Lumina as my primary desktop environment but I'm running into a couple of minor snags. I have tried changing the cursor theme via DesktopSettings>Theme>MouseCursors, and the drop-down menu lists all the cursors I have installed, but selecting and saving does nothing. Any...