/oxygen-cursors-snap

Snap of the Oxygen cursor themes originally created for KDE 4

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Snap of the Oxygen cursor themes (from both the oxygen-cursor-theme and oxygen-cursor-theme-extra packages) originally created for KDE 4.

Get it from the Snap Store

Attributions

All credit goes to the original cursor developers of the KDE project and the package maintainers at Kubuntu.

Building the snap locally

Requirements

  1. Clone the repository and enter the directory
git clone https://github.com/jollygoose/oxygen-cursors-snap
cd oxygen-cursors-snap
  1. Build the snap
snapcraft

(Optional) Two snaps packages will be built, one for the amd64 architecture, and for arm64. If only building for a single local system, you can comment out the uneeded architecture in the snapcraft.yaml file. The build is pretty quick and files relatively small ~4MB so skipping this will be fine.

architectures:
  - build-on: [arm64, amd64] # remove for amd64 only
    build-for: [arm64] # remove for amd64 only
  - build-on: [arm64, amd64] # remove for arm64 only
    build-for: [amd64] # remove for arm64 only
  1. Install the snap. If you run an ls -lh from the build directory (oxygen-cursors-snap), there should see two files (or one if the optional step was taken). Using the below command, install the snap for the system's architecture. If unsure of the architecture, check by using uname -m. If it outputs aarch64 using arm64. If it says x86_64 then use amd64.

Note: the --dangerous flag is used because this is local snap that hasn't been verified through the snap store more details here

# arm64 system install 
snap install oxygen-cursors_0.0.2012-06-kde4.8-2.1ubuntu1_arm64.snap --dangerous
# amd64 system install
snap install oxygen-cursors_0.0.2012-06-kde4.8-2.1ubuntu1_amd64.snap --dangerous

Applying the theme

In order to work, the snap package needs to have a 'plug' available for 'icon-themes'.

To apply the theme to a single application, perform the following:

sudo snap connect [snap-you-want-to-theme]:icon-themes oxygen-cursors:icon-themes

To apply to all applications run the following command. Thanks to @flexiondotorg for the handy loop.

for plug in $(snap connections | grep gtk-common-themes:icon-themes | awk '{print $2}'); do sudo snap connect ${plug} oxygen-cursors:icon-themes; done

NOTE: Some apps like the Ubuntu Snap Store may require logging out, and back in to load the changes.