Linux Cursors

[Derek Bump]

Thanks Jacqueline!

I ended up redoing the cursor in Photoshop and saving it as a GIF.  That
provided me with a cursor that got rid of that ugly hand, which I think
should be retired anyways... HyperCard is a thing of the past.

I did manage to get the native Gnome and KDE cursors to work though.

All I did was uncheck the box to include Cursors in my standalone, and
then in my script I set the cursor to "arrow".  All the cursors for
Gnome and KDE in Fedora, Ubuntu and OpenSUSE are working perfectly and
match the current system's theme.

Thanks again though.  It's tough asking Linux questions since it's so
new and not many people on here seem to be using it.


Derek Bump
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J. Landman Gay wrote:
> Derek Bump wrote:
>> Is there any way to force my standalone to not use the ugly hand cursor
>> and instead use the cursors provided by Gnome or KDE?
>>
>> If not, are there any other requirements for the cursor image that you
>> can set?  I have a 32x32 color cursor that I have set as the
>> defaultCursor of my stack and it causes the Linux standalone to crash
>> immediately.
> 
> Cursors can only contain 3 colors: black, white, and a custom color. The
> order of the colors in the color lookup table is also important, but if
> you get it wrong it won't crash, it will just display incorrectly. I
> used to know the right order but I've forgotten now.
> 
> One way to create a cursor that used to work was to import your 3-color
> image into the stack, select any paint tool, and click inside the image.
> Immediately undo. That used to set the color table correctly, but I
> haven't tried it in a long time.
> 
> You need to save your original image in a program that allows a 3-color
> CLUT. Four colors won't work.
>