To change the theme in GNOME, use gnome-tweaks or set the configuration directly with: See #XDG specification to change the cursor theme manually. While this allows to change the cursor on-the-fly, the applied theme may be inconsistent across applications. Remember to also edit ~/.config/gtk-3.0/settings.ini manually as specified in #XDG specification, because applications like Firefox use this setting instead.ĭesktop environments use the XSETTINGS protocol, typically implemented through a settings daemon. LXAppearance sets the default cursor by creating an ~/.icons/default/index.theme file: if you edited that file manually, LXAppearance will overwrite it. local/share/icons/ cursor_theme_name/cursors and restart X again. If it still does not work, try creating a symlink from ~/.icons/default/cursors (assuming user-specific) to. Restart X for the changes to take effect. You should then edit ~/.config/gtk-3.0/settings.ini, replacing the cursor_theme_name with the chosen one: The Inherits option in the section must be set to the xcursor theme directory name cursor_theme_name, for example xcursor-breeze-snow: This method applies to both X11 and Wayland cursor themes.įor user-specific configuration, create or edit ~/.icons/default/index.theme for system-wide configuration, one can edit /usr/share/icons/default/index.theme. There are various ways to set the cursor theme.
If yes, check whether the inherited theme also exists on the system (rename if needed). If the package includes an index.theme file, check if there is an "Inherits" line inside. Direct extraction to this directory is usually discouraged as files here are not tracked by pacman it is recommended to create a package for the cursor theme instead.Īlready installed cursor themes can be viewed with the command:įind /usr/share/icons ~/.local/share/icons ~/.icons -type d -name "cursors" Note: For system-wide installation the /usr/share/icons directory is used. The cursor theme directory structure is theme-name/cursors, for example: ~/.local/share/icons/ theme/cursors/ make sure the extracted files follow this structure. Extract them with this command that will work for most archives: Once downloaded, they need to be put in the icons directory (as cursors have the ability to be bundled with icon themes).įor user-specific installation, use the ~/.local/share/icons/ or ~/.icons/ directory. A number of websites exist where cursor themes can be downloaded. If a cursor theme is not available in the official repositories or the AUR, it can be added manually.
Official repositories - "xcursor-" search.Installation can be done with a package, or downloaded and extracted to an appropriate directory.
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