Everforest cursors

Everforest Medium Dark cursor theme, based on phinger-cursors.

Manually

For a manual installation, download and extract the latest release into the ~/.icons directory.

wget -cO- https://github.com/talwat/everforest-cursors/releases/latest/download/everforest-cursors-variants.tar.bz2 | tar xfj - -C ~/.icons

This installs the cursor theme for your current user. To install for all users, extract into /usr/share/icons instead.

How to enable

You might have a settings application installed that can do this for you like Gnome Tweaks or lxappearance. If you don't, enable the cursor theme as described below.

Manually

Enable it in ~/.icons/default/index.theme:

[Icon Theme]
Name=Default
Comment=Default Cursor Theme
Inherits=everforest-cursors

And finally, enable it for GTK applications in your ~/.config/gtk-3.0/settings.ini:

[Settings]
gtk-cursor-theme-name=everforest-cursors

How to change cursor size

The available cursor sizes are 24, 32, 48, 64, 96 and 128. How to change it depends on your current environment.

GNOME, MATE, XFCE

Run the following command and replace CURSOR_SIZE with your prefered one:

• on GNOME: gsettings set org.gnome.desktop.interface cursor-size CURSOR_SIZE
• on MATE: gsettings set org.mate.peripherals-mouse CURSOR_SIZE
• on XFCE: xfconf-query --channel xsettings --property /Gtk/CursorThemeSize --set CURSOR_SIZE

Xresources

Add this line to your ~/.Xresources and replace CURSOR_SIZE with your prefered one:

Xcursor.size: CURSOR_SIZE

License & Credits

This is a recoloring of phinger-cursors, so huge props to them.

All assets, including the Figma document are licensed under the CC-BY-SA-4.0 License.

The X11 and Wayland cursors are designed from scratch, and not copied. The original logos belong to X11 and Wayland respectively though.

Although designed from scratch, phinger cursors drew inspiration from capitaine-cursors, which is based on the KDE Breeze cursors. So this is a special thanks to them, and all other amazing cursor themes out there!