Serious questions: 1) WTF do you call this cursor? 2) I really

>>60900605
Install windows 10 and shut the fuck up

>>60900605
square
install gentoo
install gentoo

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>>60900708
>losing marketshare to WINDOWS 7
>half your userbase was tricked into installing it and too dumb to roll back
Windows 10 is impressively bad

>>60900708
I use windows 10 as a host for graphic design work. For my ratpoisoned minimalistic linux terminals, I kinda want that big X cursor that I suddenly have an inexplicable nostalgia for. :(

>>60900708
>(((Windows)))
shoo shoo shlomo

>>60900605
google the image and use gimp to convert it to x11 cursor then paste the file in
/usr/share/icons/[[YOUR_THEME]]/cursors/default
[[YOUR_THEME]] is whatever cursor theme your DE is using
if in doubt paste it into every folder

>>60900912
...shirley there has to be an easier way that isn't so hacky??? Why can't I just delete my current cursor theme and force it to revert to the default X??

>>60900605
That's actually one of the default X cursors.
You first have to disable cursor themes and then somehow set the x as cursor instead of the arrow.

>>60901065
That is exactly what I want! I don't want a custom theme. I want to disable themes. :(>>60901065

>>60901090
You can try running "update-alternatives --config x-cursor-theme" as root and select the core theme.
I think you need to re-login then.
As for setting the x, I think xsetroot could do it but I'm not sure. Read the manpage.
I hope there's someone who knows X's slimy guts better than I.

>>60901090
That's only part of it. The X shaped cursor is just one cursor in the "default" theme. Most window managers will set the cursor to left_ptr as the "standard" cursor (i.e not the hourglass "thinking" cursor or the hand "clickable" cursor, etc.).

If you run xsetroot -def AFTER the window manager loads, this will reset the standard to the X shaped cursor.

>>60900956
hacky? hard? Be honest, you use linux because you want to fit in.
How cute.

>>60901359
nigger you are fucking gay. I use Linux because it does what windon't

>>60901359
hacky kludges make me feel like a slob

Arch Linux does not have this issue.

>>60900605
>uses debian
>wants big black X
checks out

>>60900605
> actually wanting to be a cursorlet
please anon, you're embarrassing yourself