Journey's End

Creating KDE cursor theme packages

If you downloaded a KDE cursor theme but can't add it in KDE Control Centre, see if you can find the following in the package you downloaded:

• index.theme - regular text file
• cursors - folder containing cursor files

If these exists, you can attempt to create a KDE cursor theme package out of it such that KDE Control Centre will add it automatically:

1. Create a folder properly named, ie. my_cursors
2. Copy index.theme into the folder
3. Copy cursors into the folder. Your folder layout now should be:
   • [folder]
   • index.theme
   • cursors
     • [cursors]
4. Create a tar.gz archive out of the folder, either
5. using Konqueror: right click -> compress->.tar.gz
   • using command line: tar -zcvf folder.tar.gz folder/
6. Go to KDE Control Centre -> Peripherals -> Mouse -> Cursor Theme -> Install New Theme and add it.

And you are done!

Cheers,
Steve