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January 5, 2010

Having a Translucent cursor in KDE4 on Debian Testing (Squeeze)

Filed under: Knowledgebase,Linux/Unix Related — Suramya @ 11:03 PM

One of the things I liked about KDE3.5 and KDE4 on Ubuntu was that the mouse cursor was this translucent arrow which looked a lot better than the default one on Windows. When I switched to Debian for some reason I didn’t have that theme installed by default. So I tried searching for it but couldn’t find the theme as its kind of hard to search for translucent cursor in kde and get sensible results.

Today I decided to search again and found this forum post about customizing Ubuntu. Over there he mentioned the names of the the cursor themes installed on Ubuntu. Using that as a base I did some more digging/searching and finally found the name of the package I had to install to get my translucent cursor back.

The package you have to install is called ‘xcursor-themes’ and the theme I needed is called ‘whiteglass’. On Debian you can install it by issuing the following command: apt-get install xcursor-themes

Hope this helps.

– Suramya

January 1, 2010

Happy New Year everyone!

Filed under: My Life — Suramya @ 8:34 PM

Wishing all my readers a very Happy New Year, where ever you are located and whatever you do I hope you have a blast in the coming year. 🙂

The day (31st ) started off at 11 am for me, ’cause I had to drop off Sid and Ritika to Gurgoan(GG). They had stayed back at our place after they came over to watch Avatar with Vinit and Surabhi. We left home at about 1:30 so that we could have lunch before they left.

We had lunch at Sancho’s where I had Taco’s with grilled vegetables. Now I know that I should never order Taco’s with vegetables. Plain Beans and Rice are good enough for me. The rest of the group enjoyed the food and while mine wasn’t too bad, it wasn’t as good as I had expected.

After Lunch we left Surabhi and Vinit at South-Ex and the rest of us drove to GG. I dropped them at their place and drove to Aditya’s place. Since we had time to kill and had to get dinner we drove to the Mall road and walked around in a couple of malls. Did some shopping at Spencers for some of the stuff that I used to use in the US and missed over here in India.

Then Sakhi also joined us and we went to dinner at Punjabi by Nature. The food was decent and the portions were pretty big. After dinner we went back home and watched TV. Basically we saw the dance performances of a few dance troupes till midnight while making fun of everyone. After midnight we started watching B4U which was doing a marathon song session on various Actors and Actresses. We had so much fun commenting on everything and anything in the dance/lyrics etc. I have not laughed so much in a long time. We were up till about 4:30 am and I had a blast.

My new years resolution:

1. Finish updating suramya.com content and push the new interface out. Its way beyond time to finish this.

What are your resolutions?

– Suramya

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