Ugly little hand [Solved]

[fred smith]

On Wed, Jun 02, 2010 at 06:01:58PM -0700, Jonathan Ryshpan wrote:
> On Tue, 2010-06-01 at 19:55 -0700, Jonathan Ryshpan wrote:
> > The cursor that displays over desktop icons and links in Firefox, among
> > other places -- a little black hand pointing up -- is really ugly.  (At
> > least I think so.)  How can it be changed?  
> >         Appearance Preferences->Theme->Customize Theme 
> > allows changing the default cursor but not others.
> 
> I was confused because only one cursor-theme was installed, namely
> dmz-cursor-theme (the default), which made gnome cursor control
> 	System->Preferences->Appearance->Customize Theme->Pointer
> seem not to be good for anything.  As soon as I loaded some other
> themes, namely:
>         bluecurve-cursor-theme-8.0.2.5.fc12.noarch
>         moblin-cursor-theme-0.3.2.noarch
>         oxygen-cursor-themes-4.4.3.1.fc13.1.noarch
> this choice box became very useful.
> 
> > Same question for the whirling circle that displays when the system is
> > busy.
> 
> This may be better too.  Haven't been able to check so far.

Actually, on my F13 netbook, (at least) some apps still display the ugly
black wait-busy icon, while others (firefox, at least) use the white hand
with whirling blue stuff around it. This is after installing all the gnome
bluecurve stuff I could find.

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