On
Arch
wiki is a really nice tutorial how to setup custom X11 cursor
theme. The good thing is how solution is pretty desktop/wm neutral,
so it works under EDE as charm.
I found
Chameleon
theme very nice; you also get three different sizes: large, medium
and small. Neat!
Following above wiki tutorial, I would add how using "
~/.icons/default/index.theme" is
probably the best solution. You don't have to mess with "
~/.Xdefaults", nor need to
have permissions to play with "
/usr/share/icons" folder.
After you populate "
~/.icons/default/index.theme",
X11 will instantly load selected cursor theme. The only thing I
found are often crashes, originating from libXcursor library. This
could be either from graphic driver (nVidia of course) or from
older X-es I'm currently running (time to upgrade it).
X11 Cursor Themes
December 30, 2009