Obsidian Cursors is an Inkscape-made cursor set, featuring a sleek and polished design.
For those not familiar with the underlying technology, the X Window System, often shortened to X11 or X, is a widely used windowing system in Unix-like operating systems and OpenVMS. It provides a standardized toolkit and protocol for building user interfaces and has also been ported to many other popular operating systems.
As a fundamental framework for graphical user interfaces, X offers basic functionalities such as window drawing and manipulation, mouse, and keyboard interactions. X is not limited to a specific style or design, leaving the interface presentation completely to individual program clients.
Unlike previous display protocols, X was designed to operate network-transparently, allowing users to run the client application on one machine while displaying on different user machines. Its flexibility has made it a popular choice among developers, and its latest release, X11, has been available since 1987.
To install Obsidian Cursors, users can choose to install it through their desktop's theme settings or manually extract the archive to ~/.icons/. In GNOME, users can customize their cursor settings by selecting the theme through the Appearance preferences application's Pointer tab.
However, KDE users should note that installing the theme through the control center may cause certain cursors to use default X cursors, which can be fixed by directly extracting the theme to ~/.icons/. Overall, Obsidian Cursors is an impressive cursor set that offers a refined and uncomplicated design, perfect for those seeking an elegant and straightforward user interface experience.
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