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Hello everyone. I have searched around a bit on how to customize cursors (Download cursor files and use them) but everything I have seen and tried hasn't worked. I have found two cursor files that I would like to use, one or the other:
http://cruxye.deviantart.com/art/Bluecu ... e-96955416
http://gnome-look.org/content/show.php/ ... ent=155025

I am using Linux Mint 14 Cinnamon 32 bit installed on a flash drive.

Did you put the cursor theme folder in /usr/share/themes or ~/.themes? Or did you try both? Did you have your permissions set to access the theme folder properly?

What I tried before was exactly that, but it said I didn't have permissions. Where would I go to set permissions?

To move the folder to /usr/share/themes, you would have to do it as an administrator, using sudo or gksudo from the command line, depending on how you wish to move the folder. You would have full permission to make a folder called .themes in your home folder without any resort to the command line.

You can then set the permissions on the folder by right clicking on the folder within your file manager, selecting Properties and then selecting the Permissions tab to make sure you have read, write & execute rights in the folder.

Alright, I copied the folder over to the /usr/share/themes folder and restarted. Looking in the Cinnamon settings under themes, I don't see it. Did I do something wrong?

Did you check your permissions for that new folder and /usr/share/themes/ ?

Yeah. What are they supposed to look like? I can't edit them.

Looks like you are going to have to get your hands dirty with the CLI.

Open a terminal and paste in the following:You will have to enter your password to execute the code, but you should be able to use your cursors now, if they are placed in the file structure properly.

Alright, tried that. Will I have to restart to make it show up in the settings? If no, I must have done something wrong.

*Restarted my computer, and nothing shows up in the settings.

I have reached the limits of my ignorance. I will have to do some investigation and get back.

The themes folder is not the right place.

It's the icons folder where your cursor file should go.

You have one in your home folder ~/.icons or the system wide one /usr/share/icons

I normally decompress the cursor files into ~/.icons/name_of_cursor theme, for example, mine looks like this:

$ ls ~/.icons
default Eclipse microzoa README Relic_Gold

Each of these folders contains:

$ ls ~/.icons/Eclipse/
cursors index.theme

The cursors folder contains the picture files.
You should make sure you have read permissions to these folders, f.ex.:

$ sudo chmod -R a+r ~/.icons

If you copy the files here you should have permission anyway.

Then I use Ubuntu Tweak for changing the cursor theme in the Tweaks section. You should see your cursor themes in the Popup List control.