OLD_THEME=$(gsettings get cursor-theme) & echo $OLD_THEMEĪt this point, all that was left to do was to enable the theme. Then I copied the cyan theme to the proper directory, renaming it screencast sudo cp -r /tmp/bDMZT/abDMZ/ /usr/share/icons/screencast/īefore enabling the new cursor theme, I made note of the current theme. The file I downloaded contains multiple themes (each a different color halo) so I first extracted the contents to a temp folder tar -xzf /path/to/download/ -C /tmp/ With the cursor theme downloaded, I got to work on installing it. Installing and enabling the cursor for screencasting To download, click the files tab and then download the. I eventually ended up here, and after looking through a number of pages of different cursors, I settled on this one. When I realized that this could be accomplished with a cursor theme (duh!), I went in search of some themes. Here's an animated GIF of what I ended up with and how I got it working. I ended up at this answer which had some broken links and left me still in search of themes that someone else had surely created.
