A cursor is an arrow shown on the screen (a.k.a. a pointer) to represent where the mouse is, or a flashing horizontal line in a terminal or textbox indicating where text will be inserted during typing.
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How to change mouse cursor and theme?
How can I change X11 cursor and theme in the newest Ubuntu?
I can't find it.
Please help.
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How do I change the cursor and its size?
I have recently created an Ubuntu 12.04 partition on my Windows 7 laptop. When installing it, I switched to "high contrast" mode, which has rather large cursors (by large I mean about twice as large ...
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How do I install and select cursor themes?
I'm new to this amazing OS (Ubuntu 11.10) and I've been changing a lot of things and experimenting (it's fun you know).
But I don't know how to install cursor themes.
Can I install this? ...
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Mouse pointer size problem
My mouse cursor is double the normal size. Its only the default pointer that is enlarged. Variations like resize, busy and so on are the correct size. The problem persists even when I change cursor ...
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How to change cursor in Unity?
As we have to have active compiz with Unity, I can't change the color, size, etc. of the cursor.
Is there any way for do it?
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How can I adjust the cursor size or reset it to the default value? [duplicate]
Possible Duplicate:
How do I change the cursor and its size?
I don't know why, but after installing Ubuntu 11.10 the cursors are very large. Not always but almost in all applications (See ...
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12.04 system always freezes [closed]
Bueno, quisiera decirles que tengo varios problemas con Ubuntu 12.04, se me quedaba congelado todo excepto el mouse, si reproducía música esta se seguía escuchando pero la imagen seguía así mismo, ...
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Kubuntu - cannot change fonts and widget style under sudo after upgrade to 11.10
I have a problem with fonts, appearance of GTK and KDE-based applications and cursors in Kubuntu 11.10 after upgrade from 11.04.
I want all of my applications, both GTK and KDE, under sudo and under ...
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How to get cursor click effect?
I've seen videos like this one in which a effect appears when the user made a click. What I want it's just the effect only, I don't care the colour of the cursor.
How can I make this effect when I do ...
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Mouse cursor won't appear on boot
It's still there, but it's invisible! Logging out makes it appear again, but logging out and back in after each boot is quite a nuisance. Any ideas?
Switching to Unity 2D seems to make the cursor ...
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How to hide the mouse cursor
I'm building a kiosk using Ubuntu Precise on a touch screen. Now I'm looking for the appropriate way to make the mouse cursor disappear. As people know where they are pointing, displaying an arrow ...
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How to change Guake cursor from block to I-Beam?
As the title says, I want to change the cursor of Guake to I-Beam (the vertical line). I find block cursor to be confusing sometimes. I looked into the preferences but unfortunately there is no option ...
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Why don't some cursor themes show up in GNOME?
I have many cursor themes on my system that don't show up in GNOME's list of themes, yet work fine in other desktop environments (XFCE, LXDE, KDE, etc). What can I do to get these to show up? . Is ...
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How do you turn of the touchpad when typing to avoid the cursor jumping around?
It is nearly impossible to type on my Dell Latitude because the cursor jumps around anytime I get close to the touch pad. There is not a setting to inactivate it during typing. I am using Ubuntu ...
