[solved] Disable animated mouse cursors?

[doctordruidphd]

Is there a way to disable the animated mouse cursors, and particularly the "twisting circles" ones? I just find them irritating. I have not been able to find a cursor theme that does not have them, and there do not appear to be any icons within the themes that control this behavior.

[Snowhog]

Re: Disable animated mouse cursors?

What version of Kubuntu, and what Cursor Theme are you using? Cursor Themes (should) be in System Settings > Keyboard & Mouse > Mouse > Cursor Theme

[doctordruidphd]

Re: Disable animated mouse cursors?

Kubuntu-9.10 (whatever the current up-to-date version is, kde-4.3.2, I think)

Cursor theme: I've tried several, all with the same animations. We can use "Oxygen White" for the purpose of discussion.

[Rog131]

Re: Disable animated mouse cursors?

Is there a way to disable the animated mouse cursors, and particularly the "twisting circles" ones?

I think that the only way is to install a theme that has a non animated watch (hourglass) cursor or other cursors /1/. If the theme (partial mouse theme) don't have a watch-cursor then the KDE will use the default mouse theme watch-cursor.

Here the "System Settings > Keyboard & Mouse > Mouse > Cursor Theme" is working for the users. Before the log in the Kubuntu/KDE is using the default cursor theme.


Changing the default theme
(example)

/usr/share/icons/default/index.theme has:

[Icon Theme]
Name = Oxygen White
Comment = Oxygen mouse theme. Oxygenize your desktop!
Inherits = oxy-white

Downloading a mouse theme (http://www.kde-look.org/content/show...content=111343)

Unpacking OpenZone_Black. Copying it, in to the /usr/share/icons/OpenZone_Black. Editing /usr/share/icons/default/index.theme:

[Icon Theme]
Name = OpenZone Black
Comment = OpenZone Black mouse theme.
Inherits = OpenZone_Black

Now the OpenZone Black is the default theme -> the "OpenZone Black" theme is used before the log in


/1/ or make your very own theme.

> How to Make a Cursors File for Ubuntu
> Make X11 Cursor
> Creating a X11 Cursor Theme

[olembe]

Re: Disable animated mouse cursors?

Shame - I love the spinning circles! So smooth...

[doctordruidphd]

Re: Disable animated mouse cursors?

Thanks for the info.
What I did is copy the oxy-white theme to oxy-white-noanim, found some cursors in the whiteglass theme that I copied into oxy-white-noanim as wait and watch, and then set oxy-white-noanim to default. Works like a charm.
I will eventually get around to making my own theme -- a rainbow kubuntu animation would sure be cool.