…$ sudo update-alternatives -set x-cursor-theme /etc/X11/cursors/crystalgreen. Color material cursors for your Linux desktop with cute animation. its green variant) to be the system-wide default with the following command in a terminal:
#Linux mouse cursor pack install#
So install the package crystalcursors with the Software Manager aforesaid. the Software Manager, will keep its ugly pointers - you cannot change those from cinnamon’s settings anyway There is still a bad news, though: as you’ve installed the mouse theme just for yourself, any system window (i.e. The cute one: Tux Cursor for Linux Mint 1.0 (by courtesy of pegasus2015) Ī modern one: Ring Green 2.0.0 (by courtesy of markitos66). The quintessentially minty: leaf Simple 1.0.0 (by courtesy of markitos66) If you want your mouse to fit Linux Mint’s characteristic color design, take a look at these themes - and don’t ever blame Linux Mint for being boring Then, you can choose the new theme under Panel› (or Menu› Administration› System settings›) Themes› Mouse Pointer›, and adjust its size under All Settings› Mouse and Touchpad› Mouse› Pointer Size. icons in your home folder, which you must make up before if it doesn’t exist, of course Change here also to the correct cursor theme Icon Theme InheritsBreezeSnow. To extract, right-click on the zip file, click Extract all, select a location to save extract files, and then click the Extract button.
#Linux mouse cursor pack zip file#
Step 2: Once downloaded, extract the zip file to a new folder on desktop or any other place. The download link is on the right side of the page. The installation is as simple as to open the freshly downloaded archive, and to drag the folder inside it into another one named. theme with this content (fix for mouse in plasma changing all the time). Step 1: Visit this page of the Deviantart page and download the macOS mouse cursor pack for Windows 10. You should just make sure that the theme you will download is relatively recent, because the naming of the cursor icons changes frequently They are also more or less compatible with most desktop environments, as long as they respect the naming conventions of your distro which bear on Gnome 3.x for the Cinnamon edition, respectively on Gnome 2.x for the MATE edition, and on KDE 4.x for the KDE edition. Although there is a possibility to choose the Mouse Pointer› in cinnamon’s themes settings, there are no specific Linux Mint cursor themes installed by default - which comes as no surprise as doesn’t even include a category for cursor themesīut the good news is that those X11 mouse themes are easy to find, to install and to use.