whenever i use an animated cursor it flickers and jumps around, so i changed to a static one, but whenever i hover my cursor over certain applications it reverts back to the old animated cursor and flickers again. does anyone know of a way that i can either stop the cursor from changing, or to allow me to use animated cursors without the flickering?
ok .. it's not as easy as you think.. obviously different running programs are trying to set different cursor properties.. which you need to stop. Couple of ways to achieve that (which I have never seen tbh .. gnome works well on reasonable hardware) .. one is to remove the animated cursors, the other is to lock only one in use.... http://library.gnome.org/devel/gdk/stable/gdk-Cursors.html https://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?pid=862577 The second links to a package.. suggest having a read of the package contents and see what it actually does with regards to cursors.
I appreciate your help, and I'm sorry for being such a noob, but I don't know what to to with the package after I download and save it. I typed "gnome-fix -c [cursor name]" in the terminal. What was I supposed to do?
Someone suggested this also: to change the default theme (this will also affect the GDM login screen), edit the file /usr/share/icons/default/index.theme. under [Icon Theme], change the Name setting to the name that appears in the Appearance menu. Not sure if it's necessary, but I also changed the Inherits value to the folder of the theme in the /usr/share/icons directory. Here's my index.theme Icon section. [Icon Theme] Name = DMZ (White) Comment = Nice White Theme Inherits = DMZ-White If that would work, how do I edit "index.theme"?
I gave myself administrative permissions to change that index.theme file, and that didn't work. I've been having a lot of other problems too, such as not being able to use the keyboard in certain apps (and the app quitting when I try to) and not being able to use the mouse... Basically all the fundamental functions of a computer, lol. Could have something to do with parallels? I dunno, but I'm just gonna install a KDE desktop to get my feet wet with Linux, most people think KDE is better for beginners anyway.
I think thats the problem.. parallels.. Personally I really don't like kde, but that's most likely because I'm not familiar with it.. plus it makes the big mistake of having the file manager also a browser.. yuck.. .. I prefer xfce4. firstly tho.. it seems like a general window manager bug rather than anything you will find to be desktop specific .. give this a shot (I leave my cursors alone so long as they work) http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=156022 some other suggestions.. I don't run things emulated (except old consoles) http://forum.parallels.com/showthread.php?t=3212 I get a feeling restarting the gnome desktop might work .. then again.. maybe installing kde (but still running gnome) might allow you to kill the random cursor bug .. http://askubuntu.com/questions/12816/running-gnome-different-cursor-in-kate
I just got rid of Ubuntu altogether because I installed Linux Mint and liked it better. I didn't have any of these problems with it either. I also installed Kubuntu and I think I prefer gnome to kde as well. What distribution of xfce do you recommend? I'll try xfce and install either that or Linux Mint, depending on which I like best, via bootcamp so it's not being emulated.
xfce is just a desktop manager .. it's slimline. Mint and xubuntu are both debian based so switching desktops should be as easy as installing from repositories. http://www.debianhelp.co.uk/xfce.htm check your distro forums for any specific instructions related to xfce4 on your chosen OS
