How can I change cursor color in Ubuntu?

Question

How can I set my mouse cursor to be black on Ubuntu 14.04?

Answer 1

1. Open terminal and type:

   cp -r /usr/share/icons/DMZ-White ~/Documents/
   

   This is to make a backup of the current theme. (just in case you want to reverse the changes)

2. Next copy the icon folder to replace the icons with this command:

   sudo cp -r /usr/share/icons/DMZ-Black/* /usr/share/icons/DMZ-White/
   

3. Logout and login, there you have it, a nice black mouse cursor.

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To recover the white mouse cursor, from your backup, do the following command then logout and in again:

sudo cp -r ~/Documents/DMZ-White/* /usr/share/icons/DMZ-White/