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GNOME's Adwaita cursor theme in sizes 24, 30, ..., 96 and custom colors

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Adwaita cursors for HiDPI displays

GNOME officially provides the Adwaita cursor theme only in sizes 24, 32, 48, 64, and 96. This is inconvenient if you use displays that require fractional scaling, e.g., on a WQHD display, a size 48 cursor would look too big and one would ideally require a size 42 (= 24 * 1.75) cursor. Thus, this repository provides cursors in intermediate sizes 24, 30, 36, 42, 48, 54, 60, 66, 72, 78, 84, 90, and 96.

In addition to this, new symlinks have been created to provide for missing Qt 5 cursors, e.g., openhand and closedhand, that are required by some Qt 5 applications like qpdfview. Some symlinks have been adapted from Fedora Project's patches to the DMZ cursor package, which also adds CSS cursor values.

Finally, a script (colorize.py) that colorizes the black Adwaita cursors has also been provided. This can be used to generate garishly colorized cursors for use, e.g., with presentations. (A red version of the cursors is provided with the latest release.) This can be used on a per-application basis:

export XCURSOR_THEME=Adwaita-red XCURSOR_SIZE=96
xdg-open slides.pdf

Installation

To install without generating the cursors yourself, download the tarball of the latest release and copy the theme to the appropriate directory, e.g.,

tar xvzf adwaita-cursors.tar.gz
mkdir -p ~/.icons/default
mv adwaita-cursors/Adwaita/cursors ~/.icons/default

and set the desired cursor size in ~/.Xresources, e.g.,

Xcursor.theme: default
Xcursor.size: 42

However, typically one doesn't need cursors in all the intermediate sizes. Cursor files with several possible cursor sizes would also be very large. To generate cursors only for specific sizes, run make with SIZES as an environment variable from the source directory, e.g.,

SIZES='24 42' make

This requires xcursorgen and Python. To generate the cursors completely from scratch, including the PNG files, clone the repository and run make. Note that you will also need Inkscape for this.

See also

DMZ cursors in various sizes

License

See the file LICENSE for more details.