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[drillerccg <86184@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

I never had any use for eye-candy hence no need to change themes or
cursor icons. That is until my 78 year-old mother-in-law complained that
the cursor was too small. I tried to change the size on default cursor
and it did in some windows but not on desktop or system windows. The
search began and I came across this you tube video that solved my
problem, the link at the end. Here is a step by step of what I did
courtesy of AbhiramH on you tube:

1-Go to http://gnome-look.org/ , click on X11 Mouse Themes in the left margin, and download a pointer theme you like. I needed a large cursor so I downloaded Large Mouse Cursor 1.0
 http://gnome-look.org/content/show.php/Large+Mouse+Cursors?content=140787

2-go to download folder and extract to desktop, you now have a folder on
desktop named as the downloaded theme

****MY extracted folder was named Large Mouse Cursor and I had to rename
it Large-Mouse-Cursor (with dashes) to get this to work, it seems like
spaces don't really work in this process. Themes without spaces worked
without renaming.

3-Fire up the terminal, type sudo nautilus, enter password
4- once browsing as root in the file browser, copy the folder on the desktop and paste to usr/share/icons folder
5-close nautilus and terminal
6- Fire terminal again and type sudo gedit /usr/share/icons/default/index.theme  
7-enter password
8- when the file opens, you will see Inherits=name of your current pointer theme, change that to Inherits=name of new pointer theme which is the name of the extracted folder you copied in step 4. Mine was Inherits=Large-Mouse-Cursors  (again note the lack of space and addition of dashes)
9-save and exit.
10- now go to system/preferences/appearance, click customize, click pointer tab, and choose your new pointer theme, and exit
11- shut down and restart. Log in and out did not work for me. That's it, it should work.

Other than a few exceptions above, I take no credit for this. All the
credit goes to this dude AbhiramH on you tube

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CvS9kh_bMyM

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  Can't change cursor style using Compiz.

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