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    Need help installing new mouse pointer

    Thank you for the tutorial. I will study it. Take all the time you need and get well. That crap is no fun! Tips for seniors? How did you know!! Was it that obvious!! ;)
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    Need help installing new mouse pointer

    My apologies for the late reply. I had a busy Tuesday and I did not realize that this had gone to a second page. I thought everyone had given up a moved on. My fault entirely. So I have gone through the posts and will answer in order. Sorry, I can't do anything about Monday! You do realize that...
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    Need help installing new mouse pointer

    Deeply appreciate the reply's gentlemen; Alexzee; Isn't that what we did in post #7? Sorry, but are you saying that I need to perform these procedures as root in the command line of terminal. I don't know how to become root in terminal. If you are talking about the file directory, I've done that...
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    Need help installing new mouse pointer

    In the usr/share/icons directory, there are 100 different folders including Gamma.Gold Does it need to be opened or somehow activated within the directory?
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    Need help installing new mouse pointer

    f33dm3bits Thanks, it did create the directory, but it only contains a document labeled .uuid It didn't move anything. gryphon777@amd-ThinkPad-P17-Gen-1:~$ mkdir ~/.fonts gryphon777@amd-ThinkPad-P17-Gen-1:~$ mv Gamma.Gold ~/.fonts mv: cannot stat 'Gamma.Gold': No such file or directory...
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    Need help installing new mouse pointer

    I had another thought.....Like I said, when I got this it was set up with another user in place with his password. I set up a new user profile for myself and deleted the old one. Is it possible that the old profile/password is still in place or didn't get deleted?
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    Need help installing new mouse pointer

    Alexzee So I entered the following and received; gryphon777@amd-ThinkPad-P17-Gen-1:~$ sudo mv Gamma.Gold /usr/share/icons/ [sudo] password for gryphon777: mv: cannot stat 'Gamma.Gold': No such file or directory gryphon777@amd-ThinkPad-P17-Gen-1:~$ /Downloads$ sudo mv Gamma.Gold...
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    Need help installing new mouse pointer

    Alexzee.... I certainly appreciate your patience and persistence with me. I opened downloads, as root, and deleted all previous versions. Then downloaded 2 new files from Pling. Opened with Archive Manager and extracted into Downloads. Entered the commands into terminal and received the...
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    Need help installing new mouse pointer

    This is a fresh download of LM21. In terminal I entered - $ cd Downloads: It returned - No such file or directory So I entered : $ sudo mv Gamma.Gold /usr/share/icons/ It returned - mv: cannot stat 'Gamma.Gold' : No such file or directory In the Mouse Pointer drop down under System Settings...
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    Need help installing new mouse pointer

    Thank you for the welcome and your reply. I have tried that by opening the download file, cutting and copying the unzipped file, navigating to File System/usr/share/icon by 'opening as root' at the usr file. It stays as root down to icon at which point I click 'paste into file'. Same...
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    Need help installing new mouse pointer

    I recently purchased a refurbished laptop on ebay. While I am not an accomplished Linux user and a bit of a noob, everything has been running fine so far, except I can not install a new mouse pointer pack. I've been working on this for 3 days. I have downloaded a pack entitled Gamma.Gold from...
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