Chameleon Xcursors

Cursors

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Description:

Chameleon Xcursors theme is a cursor set created primarily in Inkscape and ImageMagick (for semitransparent and shadow).
Work on KDE and GNOME.
The cursors border color is negative of body color for high visibility.
(Small/Regular/Large version included)

Installation:
install from KDE Control Panel or
uncompress file in the ~/.icons directory and choose the theme from kde or gnome control panel.

Note:
if the animations are flickering on your nvidia card, add the following line to your xorg.conf file, into the nvidia device section, to fix it:

Option "HWCursor" "off"
Last changelog:

14 years ago

Version 0.5
- increased resize cursors body for visibility
- modified animation for text and vertical-text cursors
- added pirate cursor (for xkill)
- added DarkSkyBlue color
- changed border color of *SkyBlue cursors (now it's white)

Version 0.4
- fix animated wait cursor (rotation centre fix)
- added animated text and vertical-text cursors (inverted color pulse)
- reduced zoom-in and zoom-out cursors size
- increased cursors border size
- hand cursors color changed
- resize cursors resized :-)

Version 0.3
- various fix
- added animated cursor progress
- added animated cursor wait

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egregorion

1 month ago

Thank you all.
The project is very old and is no longer in development.
In 15 years a lot has changed on linux and I don't think these cursors are more usable on modern versions of Xorg or Wayland.

My regards
Giuseppe Benigno

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ben2talk

1 month ago

Ok, do a search - I just downloaded them from here:
https://gitlab.com/chameleon-cursor-theme/chameleon-cursor-theme

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ben2talk

1 month ago

Wow, no links here...
Fortunately still in the repos (pacman). Maybe I'll put them on my profile.

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ben2talk

1 month ago

10 10 the best

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Anatole

1 month ago

10 10 the best

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jovanemarques

2 years ago

the links are dead

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strangerdanger

4 years ago

I only recently discovered these, having downloaded the theme off of the ubuntu repos (chameleon-cursor-theme) and I instantly fell in-love; is there any chance of a red cursor being added some time in the future?

It would go perfect with both full-white and full-black themes...

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ravl

11 years ago

Hello,
I really like this theme, I've used it for years on KDE 3.x.

Now I'm moving to KDE 4, and when I install the theme, only a few of the theme cursors are used, others remain in the default theme.

Is there a way to fix this?

Thanks.

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usrshare

13 years ago

from my point of view the hand should look more like a glove. Currently it looks like the white hand of an body !

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usrshare

13 years ago

nevertheless is my favoured cursor theme :-) !

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krigstask

13 years ago

Great! Just... just really great (-:E

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Sepero

13 years ago

SOME LINKS ARE KINDA SCREWY. HOPEFULLY YOU CAN GET ANY OF THE CURSORS HERE:
http://www.egregorion.net/2007/03/26/chameleon/#more-32

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cyb3rj

13 years ago

Can be beg and plea for a Red theme?

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pennyroyalfrog

13 years ago

This is now my favorite theme, but I seem to have a problem (with other cursors themes too). All my cursors seem to have a greyish tint to them. Each and every theme. I don't know if it has something to do with my KDE/Qt color theme or what. Anybody know how to fix it?

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cronotk

14 years ago

Very good theme! Just one thing that is a bit... strange:
The cursor were there is the arrow AND the watch seems to be missing, so that gnome switches to the other one instead.

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cronotk

14 years ago

hmm... it works perfectly after a reboot.
Must have something to do with Gnome...

nvm.

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loserboy

14 years ago

I really like them but for some reason gcursor won't install them anymore

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Anon_double

14 years ago

Very beautiful cursors; extremely well done, particularly the grab-and-drag cursor, and the hyperlink-pointer cursor. One minor comment though: the animated text-input (I) cursor gets a bit distracting, particularly since the black used in the cycle for the Pearl cursors fades to nearly nothing when in front of a black terminal, making it look like the cursor disappears and reappears.

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1KB

14 years ago

If you're running unstable, "apt-get install chameleon-cursor-theme".
It will trickle down to Ubuntu and other derivatives shortly.

Go egregorion!

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pyros

14 years ago

It is without a doubt the cleanest looking cursor theme Thave found. The only problem that I have noticed is the text select cursor seems a little off center. I'm always getting an extra character to the right of what I want.

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riccardopavone

14 years ago

wanderful! i'm going to use them in all my distributions.

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shadowfx78

14 years ago

I dont have transparent cursors maybe its in a newer version of KDE but not in 3.3

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Kmyk

14 years ago

Wow! They are transparent! :O Great job, mate! I just love them!

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irony

14 years ago

These cursors look great!

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chrisatoremus

14 years ago

these are money. modern, yet not gaudy, as (unfortunately) too many cursor/desktop themes are these days...

I love the little touches like the pulsing text cursor. great work.

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14 years ago

Version 0.5
- increased resize cursors body for visibility
- modified animation for text and vertical-text cursors
- added pirate cursor (for xkill)
- added DarkSkyBlue color
- changed border color of *SkyBlue cursors (now it's white)

Version 0.4
- fix animated wait cursor (rotation centre fix)
- added animated text and vertical-text cursors (inverted color pulse)
- reduced zoom-in and zoom-out cursors size
- increased cursors border size
- hand cursors color changed
- resize cursors resized :-)

Version 0.3
- various fix
- added animated cursor progress
- added animated cursor wait

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