Custom mouse cursors in JDS

Hi people!

I work in a company that uses Solaris 10 OS on its computers, with JDS and CDE as desktop managers (no ordinary GNOME or KDE installed as optional ones). Before getting this job I wasn't a frequent UNIX/Linux user, though I had a rather good acquaintance with "Unixoid" desktop systems like GNOME and KDE. For some time I was playing with these on Fedora Core 4 on my home computer. One thing I liked was the ability to easily change desktop themes AND cursor themes. Personally, I like the default Fedora Core's Bluecurve theme very much (and its mouse cursor theme in particular). However, on JDS I can't manage to find the way to install additional cursor themes apart from the 4 default ones (small and large black pointers and their inverted white versions). I suppose I could compile and install Bluecurve sources as a whole on my Solaris 10 box (I am already using some of its icons in my $HOME/.themes folder), but I am not sure whether it will affect my cursor choices. Could anyone please clarify the issue?

[1044 byte] By [LittleAlexa] at [2007-11-27 3:26:14]
# 1
http://www.xaprb.com/blog/2006/04/24/beautiful-x11-cursors/ should probably start you off in the right direction, although a couple of the file locations might be different on Solaris (I forget off-hand)...
caluma at 2007-7-12 8:28:58 > top of Java-index,Desktop,Sun Java Desktop System...
# 2

I've managed to figure out WHY I can't install my custom cursor theme on Solaris 10 on SPARC, but I can't manage to figure out HOW exactly to circumvent this problem (if at all).

The problem is this: Xsun, Sun's only X server for Solaris 10 on SPARC platform, does not support the Xcursor library, that is required for theming cursors. I've downloaded its sources from X.Org's site and somehow managed to compile and install this library at /usr/local/lib directory. But it seems that my system just ignores its presence after restarting JDS and nothing changes. I suppose that it's impossible to "shove" Xcursor up Xsun... So why is it so? It's such a simple and small library that gives a serious boost to the overall usability of the system, then why exclude it? It seems a more than strange decision to me... If anyone knows if it's possible to "force-feed" Xcursor to Xsun, please let me know...

LittleAlexa at 2007-7-12 8:28:58 > top of Java-index,Desktop,Sun Java Desktop System...