OK, I was having this same issue. What I've found is that I can change
the cursor theme by running the gconf configuration editor and
navigating to Desktop->gnome->peripherals->mouse and manually changing
the value of the "cursor_theme" key. I changed it from "default" to
"whiteglass" and the cur
One further note ... you have to use the folder name from
/usr/share/icons, not the theme name identified in the appearances
dialog. For example, if I used "DMZ (White)" (as shown in the
appearances dialog), I got the default theme. If I changed it to "DMZ-
White" (the folder in /usr/share/icons)
And yet another ... if you want to change the default theme (this will
also affect the GDM login screen), edit the file
/usr/share/icons/default/index.theme. under [Icon Theme], change the
Name setting to the name that appears in the Appearance menu. Not sure
if it's necessary, but I also changed
