Customizing My Google Cursor

Yes, another one of those posts on how to get rid of the damn I-beam cursor...
I have a thing for cursors, specifically, for cursors that do my bidding.
Right now I'm using a very nice cursor them called Google Cursor, that, yes, tries to replicate the look and feel of the Chrome OS cursors, but, this being Linux, I certainly can customize my cursor icons the way I see like them...
Which is something that Chrome OS don't let you do... At all..

These are the changes I made to the Google Cursor theme to suit my needs, after installing it on ~/.icons/

cd ~/.icons/Google_Cursor/cursors/

cp xterm xterm.ORIG
cp ibeam ibeam.ORIG
cp text text.ORIG

cp left_ptr xterm
cp left_ptr ibeam
cp left_ptr text

Back Into The Reservation

Nope, definitively, I don't have to take the my Chromebooks onto Developer Mode...
After a short test with Crouton, I got the little Chromebook Pro back onto the full Google domains.

Yeap, I have done it in order to try to customize the damn mouse cursor shape, basically, to get rid, or rather, to change the dreadful I-Beam onto the lovely Arrow, but, again, I wasn't able to do, and this time it was even harder, Chrome OS no longer has any resemblance of a Linux file system hierarchy, at least, not in the traditional way... That is, there is no longer a /usr/share/cursors/xorg-x11/default/ directory... Not that being there helped at all in the past...
Anyways, back onto plain vanilla Chrome OS, I hate the mess that running Developer Mode does, and I think it doesn't makes or gives any advantage, since I can't do what I want with the OS.
I know it is stupid, but I do want to have the mouse cursors the way I want them.

To Developer, Crouton and Beyond!

On Monday switched the Chromebook Pro to Developer Mode and today installed Linux via Crouton.
Used this options to make the install:

sudo sh ~/Downloads/crouton -r sid -t\ xfce,touch,chrome,extension,keyboard -e

But it failed because:

touch target is not supported on Debian.

So I finally used this install options:

sudo sh ~/Downloads/crouton -r xenial\
-t xfce,touch,chrome,extension,keyboard -e 

The install itself it was breeze, I mean, there were no problems whatsoever, but it took something like 4 hours to download and install the whole shebang.

I'm currently running stuff on this new Crouton thing on the Chromebook Pro, to determine if I keep it or I nuke the whole thing and then disable Developer Mode to revert the whole thing and head back to the reservation.

Dropbox on ChromeOS

It turns out it is really simple... As in 1,2,3...
- Add new service
- Install new service
- Then select "File System for Dropbox", add you credentials, you are done.

Chromebook Lusting

This past week I've researched a lot about getting a Chromebook, no, not the little one; but a powerful one, the C100 is really under powered.
Looking for the Samsung Chromebook Pro, the Asus Chromebook C302 and, yes, maybe the one, the Pixelbook.
Leaving price aside, and just for the sake of lust and more lust, the only thing that is really stopping me is how close, how unfriendly to customization Chrome OS is.
The hardware of those laptops is amazing, specially the Samsung Chromebook Pro and the Pixelbook, (doh!)

Cascading with Style on Chrome

As a futile attempt to customize the cursor shape on Chrome OS I'm using a Chrome extension called Custom Stylesheet & Script, using this CSS snip:

body {

  cursor: default !important;

}

input {

  cursor: default !important;

}

But the thing works so so... And of course, it only works inside of Chrome.

The Current Chrome OS Desktop

Wow, the folks at Google did a major change with their Dock.
Pretty, pretty good.
I just hope Chrome OS would allow you to configure mouse cursor icons...
Anyway, I can dream all that I want.

Small potatoes? Big cursors! (II)

Ok, this is no news, I'm a schmuck, I know that already, but nevertheless, I can't believe I'm not able to customize my mouse cursors icon on Chrome OS.
I know, I know, it is not a big deal, etc. etc. etc But, what a hell, I want to be able to do such a stupid thing w/o having to do all sort of stupid crap on my box.

I went the same route, the same pain and trial and error passage, when I was using Os X circa Snow Leopard, (damn, man! That was nearly 8 years ago...)
Anyway, it even seems like it is harder to accomplish something like that on Chrome OS.
A real shame, since I find the hardware amazingly sexy and cool, specially the Asus Chromebook C302, not to mention the PixelBook.

32 When I Want It

Well this is strange...
I was under the impression that Chrome doesn't run on 32 bits boxes...
On Linux you can't install Chrome on 32 bit, you have to make do running Chromium.

Chrome OS: Configure Mouse Pointer

It turns out you can't.
You're stuck with the default ones,
So this means that once again, I'm stuck with the fucking dreaded I-Beam... It drives me the fuck nuts, besides, now I'm older and that damn cursor is harder to see.

Mombook

My mother got a Chromebook Flip yesterday.
It replaces a now ancient Dell XPS I gave her (with Linux, of course) a couple of years ago, she seems to be more than happy with her new lappie.
Didn't have much time to tinker with it yet.