Description: Polar Cursor Theme is a smooth and simple cursor set created primarily in Inkscape.
****Installation**** There are three cursor sets included in this package. The default with the orange busy cursors is called PolarCursorTheme and the blue and green variants have -Blue and -Green added to the end of their theme name. To make sure that all themes are installed (or only the one you want) extract to /.icons/ in your home folder.
****Note**** KDE users please note that installing the cursors through the control center can cause some cursors to use the default X cursors. To fix this simply extract the theme directly to /.icons/ in your home folder.
Finally a special thanks to all the authors of various cursor themes here on gnome-look.org for ideas.
Enjoy!Last changelog:
Version 1.4 -Added Zoom cursors -Fixes to cursor mappings -Highlight added to clean up outlines -Added Blue and Green busy cursors as an option -Changed move cursor -Small changes to other cursors
not all cursors where working for me in kde 4, so i had to make some more symlinks:
ln -s xterm ibeam
ln -s question_arrow whats_this
ln -s watch wait
ln -s fleur size_all
ln -s bottom_right_corner size_fdiag
ln -s bottom_left_corner size_bdiag
ln -s right_side size_hor
ln -s top_side size_ver
ln -s hand pointer
ln -s hand pointing_hand
ln -s dnd-none forbidden
ln -s HandGrab openhand
ln -s HandSqueezed closedhand
Thanks, this really is one of the nicest cursor styles that I've found. Can you make a non-animated version? For one thing, Compiz has a compatibility problem with xfree and animated cursors do not work with my setup. For another, I know two people with vertigo, and the animated cursor is very disturbing for them to look at. Thanks!
hi!
i love this cursor theme, is the second thing that i do after installing my gnome distro (the first is share my internet connection)
great job! dont sell your cursor theme to microsoft... i you do that more people will use vista!
great job.
tuxcayc-->
viva chile!
I found that a lot of icons in the cursors directory was missing, instead there was empty files. If you look at for example the jimmac theme, you can see which files should be linked to all the empty files.
This is a bug with the way KDE extracts the tarball. If you extract it yourself and move the folder to the cursors folder (~/.icons I believe) it should fix the problem.
Great cursor theme! Yea In the mouse control applet in Gnome-2.12 you can change the cursor. You can also put the cursors in ~/.cursors and the program will be able to read it.
Hello,
First : bravo for the theme, its a high quality theme and a very pretty design.
Second : there is obviously a lake of cursors : especially for Gimp tools. Are you gonna make this tools cursors ?
Thanks !
Great theme, but only the arrow and sometimes the hand seem to work for me. The resize, move and busy cursors come from my default cursor theme. Anyone find a solution to this? I'm running KDE 3.4.2
Finally got a chance to test this out and I've found out what needs to be done to fix the problem. It appears that when installing the cursors through the Control Center that the symlinks are not copied correctly. To solve this problem all you have to do is extract the PolarCursorTheme folder to /home/your username/.icons/ and that should solve your missing cursors problem.
thank you for your comment, but firstly, there is no /usr/share/cursors folder in my filesystem, so I created the folders as root, put the theme folder into /usr/share/cursors/xorg-x11 and a new index.theme - file (with just the line Inherit=PolarCursorTheme
in it) into /usr/share/cursors/xorg-x11/default
and restarted the gnome-session, but it didn't change the cursor-theme....
Ok to change your cursor theme for your gnome session, first extract the PolarCursorsTheme folder to
/home/your username/.icons/
Then open up the gnome configuration editor (gconf-editor) and go to desktop>gnome>peripherals>mouse and change the cursor_theme key value to PolarCursorTheme. Finally you'll need to log out and restart X before the changes will take affect.
Now there is a program that will do this for you called gcursor available at http://www.gnomefiles.org/app.php?soft_id=125 with it you can install a cursor theme just like you would a GTK or Metacity theme.
Hope this helps.
Ratings & Comments
39 Comments
10 10 the best
10 Bonjour, pour moi le meilleur design que j'ai trouvé. Merci
10 Excellent
10 10 the best
10 10 the best One of my top ten - perfect.
9 So beautiful cursor theme that goes really well with dark desktop themes.
Actually outlined, so like the Obsidian (black version) they BOTH work well on dark and light themes/backgrounds perfectly.
4 4 soso
not all cursors where working for me in kde 4, so i had to make some more symlinks: ln -s xterm ibeam ln -s question_arrow whats_this ln -s watch wait ln -s fleur size_all ln -s bottom_right_corner size_fdiag ln -s bottom_left_corner size_bdiag ln -s right_side size_hor ln -s top_side size_ver ln -s hand pointer ln -s hand pointing_hand ln -s dnd-none forbidden ln -s HandGrab openhand ln -s HandSqueezed closedhand
Thanks, this really is one of the nicest cursor styles that I've found. Can you make a non-animated version? For one thing, Compiz has a compatibility problem with xfree and animated cursors do not work with my setup. For another, I know two people with vertigo, and the animated cursor is very disturbing for them to look at. Thanks!
hi! i love this cursor theme, is the second thing that i do after installing my gnome distro (the first is share my internet connection) great job! dont sell your cursor theme to microsoft... i you do that more people will use vista! great job. tuxcayc--> viva chile!
Hi, I am a complete new user to linux. I downloaded your cursors but I don't know how to install them. Thank you very much for your help!
It takes a while to get used to these cursor, but they look nice and they are the more "Plastik" around. Good work!
1000 downloads, i'm making you a small version... stay tuned on gnome-look :D
When I hover my mouse over an icon on a desktop, I see a lame old icon instead of your theme's hand. Any ideas?
I found that a lot of icons in the cursors directory was missing, instead there was empty files. If you look at for example the jimmac theme, you can see which files should be linked to all the empty files.
This is a bug with the way KDE extracts the tarball. If you extract it yourself and move the folder to the cursors folder (~/.icons I believe) it should fix the problem.
tnx a lot tnx for the info, i didn't knew that now i realize that after all we are always n00bs in something
Great cursor theme! Yea In the mouse control applet in Gnome-2.12 you can change the cursor. You can also put the cursors in ~/.cursors and the program will be able to read it.
Hello, First : bravo for the theme, its a high quality theme and a very pretty design. Second : there is obviously a lake of cursors : especially for Gimp tools. Are you gonna make this tools cursors ? Thanks !
Great theme, but only the arrow and sometimes the hand seem to work for me. The resize, move and busy cursors come from my default cursor theme. Anyone find a solution to this? I'm running KDE 3.4.2
Finally got a chance to test this out and I've found out what needs to be done to fix the problem. It appears that when installing the cursors through the Control Center that the symlinks are not copied correctly. To solve this problem all you have to do is extract the PolarCursorTheme folder to /home/your username/.icons/ and that should solve your missing cursors problem.
Good work!
thank you for your comment, but firstly, there is no /usr/share/cursors folder in my filesystem, so I created the folders as root, put the theme folder into /usr/share/cursors/xorg-x11 and a new index.theme - file (with just the line Inherit=PolarCursorTheme in it) into /usr/share/cursors/xorg-x11/default and restarted the gnome-session, but it didn't change the cursor-theme....
Ok to change your cursor theme for your gnome session, first extract the PolarCursorsTheme folder to /home/your username/.icons/ Then open up the gnome configuration editor (gconf-editor) and go to desktop>gnome>peripherals>mouse and change the cursor_theme key value to PolarCursorTheme. Finally you'll need to log out and restart X before the changes will take affect. Now there is a program that will do this for you called gcursor available at http://www.gnomefiles.org/app.php?soft_id=125 with it you can install a cursor theme just like you would a GTK or Metacity theme. Hope this helps.