gentoo-xcursors/README.adoc

gentoo-xcursors

A high quality set of animated mouse cursors.

The original authors are unknown^[1], the source of the initial commit is the file gentoo-cursors-tad-0.3.1.tar.bz2 from the Gentoo mirrors. If you have the source files used to generate the cursors, please get in touch.

Table of Contents

• Previews
• Install
  • Gentoo
  • Other
• Configuration
• License
• To do
  • (Re-)create source files
  • Missing cursors

Previews

The conversion from X11 cursor to PNG I’ve used is a bit lossy. In reality the cursors look better than in the pictures.

Install

Gentoo

emerge -a x11-themes/gentoo-xcursors

Other

Copy the contents of cursors/ into /usr/share/cursors/xorg-x11/cursors/ or ~/.icons/.

Configuration

See Gentoo Wiki: Cursor themes. The available sizes are 16, 24, 32, 48 and 64.

License

gentoo-xcursors is licensed under the MIT license. See LICENSE for details.

https://schlomp.space/tastytea/gentoo-xcursors/raw/branch/main/CONTRIBUTING.adoc

To do

(Re-)create source files

Since we don’t have the sources, creating new cursors or modifying them is not gonna be easy. Possible solutions are to (semi-automatically?) create SVGs from the X11 cursors, start from scratch, or work directly with the X11 cursors. Ideas are welcome.

Missing cursors

Note	dnd = Drag and drop

• bd_double_arrow a.k.a. nwse-resize a.k.a. size_fdiag a.k.a. c7088f0f3e6c8088236ef8e1e3e70000

• fd_double_arrow a.k.a. nesw-resize a.k.a. size_bdiag a.k.a. fcf1c3c7cd4491d801f1e1c78f100000

• crossed_circle a.k.a. not-allowed a.k.a. 03b6e0fcb3499374a867c041f52298f0

• copy a.k.a. dnd-copy a.k.a. 1081e37283d90000800003c07f3ef6bf a.k.a. 6407b0e94181790501fd1e167b474872

• link a.k.a. dnd-link a.k.a. alias a.k.a. 3085a0e285430894940527032f8b26df a.k.a. 640fb0e74195791501fd1ed57b41487f

• no-drop a.k.a. dnd-no-drop

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1. If you are one of the authors, please get in touch so that you can be properly attributed.