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
An Archimedes-inspired multi-colour source SVG can be generated with:
./colorize.py --preset archimedes > adwaita-archimedes.svg
The preset uses a dark-blue (#000099) body and a cyan-to-teal border
(#00ffff, #00b2e0, and #3bbbbb). To rebuild quickly from the
repository's complete rendered PNG cache, recolour the cache and then
run the normal cursor compiler in a separate working copy:
./recolor-archimedes-pngs.py png /path/to/build/png
The ready-to-install result is in Adwaita-Archimedes. Install it for
the current user and select it without changing the GNOME shell theme:
mkdir -p ~/.local/share/icons
cp -a Adwaita-Archimedes ~/.local/share/icons/
gsettings set org.gnome.desktop.interface cursor-theme 'Adwaita-Archimedes'
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 the file LICENSE for more details.