- #CUSTOM CURSOR MAKER HOW TO#
- #CUSTOM CURSOR MAKER INSTALL#
- #CUSTOM CURSOR MAKER SOFTWARE#
- #CUSTOM CURSOR MAKER ZIP#
If you need your cursors bigger, contact me and I see what I can do. The Windows cursor theme has some flaws: My theme has shadows by default, so you can’t use the Shadows setting. Select it and confirm your preference with OK. Under Schemes you find “cz-Viator ” in the drop down menu.
In the new window choose Designs, then Mouse cursor. For this right click on your desktop, pick “Customize” in the context menu. It copys the cursor folder to C:\Windows\Cursors\ and registers the cursors as a new available scheme.Īfter that you can select the cz-Viator theme. There are other possibilities but I can’t list all of them here. On KDE Plasma go to Computer > System Settings > Workspace Appearence > Cursor Theme (or similar).įor MATE search at System > Settings > Appearence > Theme …, XFC should be Settings > Mouse and Touchpad > Cursor Theme. Depending on your Linux distribution use the Gnome Tweak Tool or Unity Tweak Tool (there: Theme Settings). Now you have to set your cursor theme as the prefered one. Replace the with the name of the generated folder from step 2.3.
icons in your home directory – if neccessary create this folder.
#CUSTOM CURSOR MAKER INSTALL#
To install the theme for a single user copy the theme folder into the hidden folder. 3 Installing and Using the Cursor Theme Instructions for Linux In all other cases unfortunately the default cursors are displayed (e. g. A fair warning: Using that Editor is in no way as fast and easy as combining the PNGs with a simple shell command.įurthermore the Windows theme apparently can contain only a subset of the cursors, namely: left_ptr, help, pointing_hand, text, crosshair, not-allowed, pencil, move, up-arrow, ns-resize, ew-resize, nesw-resize, nwse-resize, progress and wait.
#CUSTOM CURSOR MAKER SOFTWARE#
For his capitaine theme he used the free Windows software Real World Cursor Editor.
#CUSTOM CURSOR MAKER HOW TO#
If somebody knows how to do that for Mac, please let me know.įor Windows: Keefer Rourke gave me a hint how to convert PNG images to Windows cursors. 2.4 (optional) Recreating Your Cursor Theme for Windows and Mac (For the next steps I’ll call that “theme folder”). Your finished cursor theme is in the new folder with your given name. It is described in a file in the folder hotspots. 1.2 Setting hotspotsįor each cursor you have to determine the spot where the mouse tip is located. It may contain blurred shadow lines, other colors, stroke widths or areas without an outline. Teal means that this cursor doesn’t follow the standard of 1px black stroke, white filling. Pink signals that this cursor contains or consists of cloned other cursors. They could be helpful if you just want make small edits to the provided theme. It is set to invisible because it should not get rendered as a cursor background.īy the way the colors of the slices layer are only important for the example cursor file. The third layer slices contains rectangles with the ID of the individual cursors. It is cloned to the second, semi-transparent layer shadow, slightly translated and blurred. On the layer cursors there’s a group of the different cursors. Otherwise start by editing the file template.svg in the folder svgs with Inkscape. If you just want to generate a theme out of the provided SVG you can skip this step and proceed with generating the PNGs. For combining the PNGs to X11 cursor files you’ll need the command line tool xcursorgen. To render the PNGs the vector editing software Inkskape is used.
#CUSTOM CURSOR MAKER ZIP#
If downloaded via the green github button top right then unpack the zip file. Gerhard Großmann ( April 2018 PresettingsĬlone or download the files of this repository to your local machine. For installing instructions see step 3 in this README file.
For Windows I made a trimmed-down version: cz-Viator WIN and cz-Viator (Black) WIN. Maybe you don’t want to build your own theme and just download mine? I’ve prepared the white cz-Viator and the variant cz-Viator (Black). I used it to build my cursor theme cz-Viator (included in this package). This collection of files enables you to create a Linux cursor theme out of an SVG file.
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