How do I install Cursors and Icons on Linux?

Published: 23 July 2019
on channel: Switched to Linux
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This video tutorial is how to manually install mouse pointers and icon packs into Linux systems.

To install to ALL USERS, the packs must go in:
/usr/share/.icons/

To install just to YOUR USER, the packs must go in:
.icons/ (in your home directory)

For the preview in the CINNAMON desktop, you need to create a .png file from one of the cursors and put it into:
/usr/share/cinnamon/thumbnails/cursors/


To fix the Blue Flame: The cursors were all placed into the sizes (16, 32, 64, etc). The directory structure is:
Folder-Name
-cursors
--all the cursors go here, not in the folder
index.theme

(in words, the folder with the theme should have the index.theme file, a folder called cursors which contains the cursors directly, not the several folders, so I copied the icons from 24 into the newly created 'cursors' folder and the icons now work perfectly.
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