[REQUEST] Light/Dark Mouse Cursor Theme

[kupiqu]

It would be good to have an option to change the cursor for those that would like varying between light and dark themes.

[baduhai]

Won't fix, reason for this is listed here.

A previous unreleased version of Koi had this functionality, but because various different applications are so inconsistent about recognising that a new cursor is being used I dropped support for it. Until I can find a way that makes all applications recognise the new icon theme immediately, I will not consider adding back support for this.

[Da-Viper]

There is a terminal command for changing icons through out plasma it is

/usr/lib/plasma-changeicons "nameof the icon theme". including double quote

Like to change to papirus you type

/usr/lib/plasma-changeicons "Paprus"

It gets the icon name from
/usr/share/icons/
and ~/. local/share/icons/

it wasn't added to path so you have to call it manually

Here is it in the source code of plasma

https://github.com/KDE/plasma-desktop/tree/master/kcms/icons

You can see the executable under cmakelist

[baduhai]

Yes I know, it is, in fact, how Koi changes icons. This is however for changing the icon theme, and not the cursor theme.

[Da-Viper]

Lol my bad read the issue wrong

[MartinVonReichenberg]

Is the difficulty of implementing the mouse cursor still present in 2023, in the latest KDE Plasma ?_?

I am asking because I would welcome it too and there are not really many options for mouse cursor theming installed by default:

• Adwaita
• Breeze light
• Breeze (dark)

Thank you!

[olivertzeng]

True