Since a couple of years, I've been using a custom cursor theme – the cursor is a turtle emoji! Sometimes I forget that it exists, and people are amused that there's a turtle on my screen! :D
In this workshop, I'll explain how cursor themes work on Linux, and teach you how to generate your own one! It could be anything you want – some ideas:
- Draw your own arrows (cool-looking? Weird ones?)
- Repurpose your favorite icons/logos (so that everyone immediately knows that you're using Arch btw)
- Blåhajs?!
- High-contrast cursors that are actually more accessible to you
Bring a Linux laptop! And it'd be ideal if you could already install the vector graphics program Inkscape and the command line tool xcursorgen! I'll show you a little script that will help you generate the theme.
The resulting themes work both on X.Org as well as Wayland.