How to change the mouse pointer in Xfce

Arne Hartherz

November 19, 2012Software engineer at makandra GmbH

Unlike in Gnome, there is no graphical tool to set a mouse cursor in Xfce. Run this on a terminal instead:

sudo update-alternatives --config x-cursor-theme

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Posted by Arne Hartherz to makandra dev (2012-11-19 14:38)