The default mouse pointers are very large. To change the big pointers, themes can be downloaded from the internet and installed.

+ A simple solution to make new cursors work in all situations
- Requires overwriting of system files
- Requires backing up of system files (if you think you will ever want the original theme back)

1. Choose a cursor theme from the internet. Grounation as it is fairly small and fits with the silver EEE theme. Pick your own if you wish, there are lots out there, KDE-Look is a good place to try.
2. Save the packaged up file to your home directory (/home/user/).
3. Open the File Manager and find the downloaded file. Most likely it is an archive (ends .tar.something or similar). Right click it and select extract all, then press 'OK' to extract to your home directory.
4. This should create a folder with the name of your cursor theme: have a look. For Grounation it is /home/user/Grounation-0.3 . From there browse to teh relevant folder, for example, /home/user/Grounation-0.3/Grounation/cursors, where the cursor files can be found.
5. At this stage, if you feel you need to backup the mouse theme that comes installed on the EEE PC, run the following commands in a terminal (open with Ctrl+Alt+t):

   sudo cp -r /usr/share/icons/eeePC/cursors /usr/share/icons/eeePC/originalcursors

6. Backup done or not, time to place your new cursors into the /usr/share/icons/eeePC/cursors folder. For Grounation the command in the terminal is

   sudo cp /home/user/Grounation-0.3/Grounation/cursors/* /usr/share/icons/eeePC/cursors/

   You will need to change the first path to the folder you found above, containing your cursor files.

7. Reboot to finish, and enjoy!

+ Doesn't involve editing any system files, edits are confined to home directories
+ User-specific and may not affect root user
- Doesn't seem to work for all pointers (some don't take the new theme, e.g. the busy pointer)

1. Click here to go to the kde-look.org website to download the file 31480-lil-polar.tar.tar, if necessary change the tag on the end to .tar.gz
2. Open terminal window. (Ctrl-Alt-t)
3. Type kcontrol and navigate to Peripheral devices → Mouse → Cursor Theme. At the bottom (you may need to scroll down) it says “install theme” add the tar.gz file, choose it, it will say you need to restart, hit ok, but don't restart yet.
4. Type or copy and paste the text below (into the terminal window)

   mkdir /home/user/.icons/

   (this makes a folder called .icons, if the folder already exists you will just get an error message telling you this. The dot before icons is important). Then press Enter

5. Continuing in the terminal window, type or copy and paste the text below:

   cd /home/user/.icons/

   Then press Enter

6. Continuing in the terminal window, type or copy and paste the text below:

   mv lil-polar/ default

   Then press Enter

7. Close the terminal window
8. Reboot

+ This method is quick and dirty, and restores the normal xandros cursors with minimal effort.

1. Open terminal window. (Ctrl-Alt-t)
2. Type

   sudo apt-get update

3. Type

   sudo apt-get remove eeepc-cursor-theme

4. Close the terminal window
5. Restart X11 (Ctrl-Alt-Backspace)

It has been posted that Method 2 works for both Easy and Advanced mode and it is very much expected the first will too but this is unconfirmed.

This wiki article was originally posted by Niel 1952, based on work done by 3lj, sevenths, ptopping, richardkemp, theletch and veebis in this forum thread. rio b and you numero rio