how to change mouse pointer in gnome

[h3xis]

this may sound stupid, but i installed ubuntu on a cousin's computer today and she has decided to use gnome. thing is, i can't figure out how to change the mouse pointer. i'm sure there's an easy way that i'm missing...

[karma_police]

install gcursor

[j79zlr]

you could also do it the old fashioned way, download your cursor theme and extract it into:

~/.icons

Now create a folder in that directory named "default"

mkdir ~/.icons/default

Now inside the ~/.icons/default/ folder, create a file named index.theme

touch ~/.icons/default/index.theme

and add the following lines:

[Icon Theme]
Inherits=theme_name

where theme_name is the name of the folder of the icon theme you downloaded.

[Knight']

GNOME 2.12 will have a mouse theme selector built in, it's similar to the current Window border/Icons/Controls theme selector in GNOME 2.10.

[chavo]

Here's a link to gcursor -> http://www.gnomefiles.org/app.php?soft_id=109

Just put the cursor files in ~/.icons.

Remember that you'll have to log out and back in for it to take effect in most apps. The next version of gtk will change the cursor on the fly. I have also found that restarting metacity will load the new cursors in most apps. Just run -> killall metacity, in a console. It will restart metacity and load the cursor theme. It's a little quicker than logging out and back in.