Curiously, is there a "classic" Xcursor theme available from
somewhere? That is, a theme with monochrome cursors with the
same look as the "native" X cursors, perhaps with one or more
different sizes available as well?
Barring that, is there a clean way to disable Xcursor? So far,
about the only workaround I've found is to point the XCURSOR_PATH
environment variable to a non-existent directory, e. g., in my
~/.xsession.
Eli the Bearded <*@eli.users.panix.com> writes:
In comp.windows.x, Ivan Shmakov <ivan@siamics.net> wrote:
Curiously, is there a "classic" Xcursor theme available from
somewhere? That is, a theme with monochrome cursors with the same
look as the "native" X cursors, perhaps with one or more different
sizes available as well?
Looking at Xcursor theme tutorials it seems like you could just
convert the bitmaps for the cursorfont to pngs and be 90% there.
Barring that, is there a clean way to disable Xcursor? So far,
about the only workaround I've found is to point the XCURSOR_PATH
environment variable to a non-existent directory, e. g., in my
~/.xsession.
Use a different window manager? I use icewm and have pure old-school cursors.
$ echo 'Xtermtest*pointerShape: trek' >> ~/.Xdefaults
$ xterm -name Xtermtest
new xterm has the stupidest cursor shape in the font instead of the
nice clean I beam shape.
'*pointerShape: shuttle' is a close second
On 2019-04-10, Ivan Shmakov wrote:
Eli the Bearded <*@eli.users.panix.com> writes:
In comp.windows.x, Ivan Shmakov <ivan@siamics.net> wrote:
Barring that, is there a clean way to disable Xcursor? So far,
about the only workaround I've found is to point the XCURSOR_PATH
environment variable to a non-existent directory, e. g., in my
~/.xsession.
Use a different window manager? I use icewm and have pure old-school
cursors.
That's interesting; my guess was that new-style cursors were
requested by the applications explicitly -- as suggested by the
fact that, say, $ XCURSOR_PATH=/nowhere xedit & resulted in an
Xedit starting unaffected by them. But it seems to be more
complicated than that, as some programs do not appear to be linked
against libXcursor, yet still show decidedly non-classic cursors.
Conversely, Firefox employs such cursor regardless of how (or if)
the WM treats them.
Then again, libX11 isn't /linked/ against libXcursor -- but it
references the latter by name, per $ strings output.
(Now, also seeing all the *-theme dependencies in Debian, I'm
eager to try adding "path-exclude /usr/share/icons/*" to dpkg.cfg
and see if anything breaks.)
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