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Vimix cursors

This is an x-cursor theme inspired by Materia design and based on capitaine-cursors.

Installation

To install the cursor theme simply copy the compiled theme to your icons directory. For local user installation:

./install.sh

For system-wide installation for all users:

sudo ./install.sh

Then set the theme with your preferred desktop tools.

Windows

The Windows build comes with an INF file to make installation easy.

  1. Open .windows/ folder in Explorer, and right click on install.inf.
  2. Click 'Install' from the context menu, and authorise the modifications to your system.
  3. Press the Windows Key and R at the same time and type main.cpl in the run promt and press Ok.
  4. Go to Pointers and select Vimix Cursors under the Scheme category.
  5. Click 'Apply'.

Building from source

You'll find everything you need to build and modify this cursor set in the src/ directory. To build the xcursor theme from the SVG source run:

./build.sh

This will generate the pixmaps and appropriate aliases. The freshly compiled cursor theme will be located in dist/

Building depends requirement

  • xorg-xcursorgen.
  • python-cairosvg.

Fedora/RedHat distros:

dnf install xorg-xcursorgen python-cairosvg

Ubuntu/Mint/Debian distros:

sudo apt-get install xorg-xcursorgen python-cairosvg

ArchLinux/Manjaro:

pacman -S xorg-xcursorgen python-cairosvg

Other: Search for the engines in your distributions repository or install the depends from source.

Preview

Vimix Vimix-white