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(2015-2020) 		 Cursor Fixes

e.g
Mouse randomly spins as if busy.
Pointing hand cursor never shows up.
( lubuntu 18.04 )

The 'stuck' busy mouse cursor fix.

This problem  is where the mouse randomly spins as if busy is annoying. It is a bug where the mouse cursor gets stuck with the busy cursor.

This fix just changes  the busy cursor to a normal pointer.

For this to work, you need to install a custom mouse theme, e.g Chameleon-White.
To do that first have a look here.

In a Terminal, go to where the cursors are;

cd /usr/share/icons/Chameleon-White-Large/cursors

Make a backup of the busy cursor (watch) then link it to the normal cursor (left_ptr);

mv watch watch.old
ln -s left_ptr watch


Do the same for left_ptr_watch busy cursor

mv left_ptr_watch left_ptr_watch.old
ln -s left_ptr left_ptr_watch

That's it.

The missing Pointing Hand Fix
Here is a siimilar fix for the 'pointing hand' cursor not showing up sometimes if you are using the pcmanfm desktop manager.

mv pointing_hand pointing_hand.old
ln -s hand2 pointing_hand


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