Edit Windows cursors - Abdelrhman-AK/WinPaletter GitHub Wiki

1. Introduction

This feature is not dependent on Windows Registry only, but also it renders new cursors files from init so you can add your touch to most aspects in cursors including their styles, backgrounds, lines colors and loading circles colors.

2. Lock/Unlock toggle

Make it checked to make WinPaletter can modify cursors

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3. Select cursor you want to modify

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4. Parts

  • They are: cursor style, cursor colors, loading cursor colors and custom shadow.

1. Cursor style

You can change style of cursor and its loading part, it include Aero, Modern and Classic

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2. Cursor colors

  • You can change background color and line color

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  • The second color inside one section is used for gradience

  • To enable gradience, make this checked

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  • There are different gradience types; including Vertical, Horizontal, Forward Diagonal, Backward Diagonal and Circle

  • Circle gradience is animated while there is a progress (in wait or loading cursors)

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  • You can apply noise effect by make it checked in the part you need (background or outline) and control its intensity by a track bar

3. Loading colors

  • They are exactly the same as Cursor colors (the previous part), but with different labels; Background of loading circle and Rotating part.

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  • They can be modified when two cursors are selected: app starting and busy

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4. Custom shadow

It renders a shadow that is different from that Windows does

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  • Make it enabled if you like to use custom shadow in current selected cursor

  • If you enabled it, please disable shadow in miscellaneous part (to disable shadow that Windows renders and use shadow rendered by WinPaletter)

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  • You can change color of shadow with its blur power and opacity, with the ability to move it in X and Y coordinates

  • This is an example for a red shadow applied to app starting cursor

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5. Repeat previous steps from 2 to 5 with other cursors

  • Or instead, you can copy from a cursor you modified before and paste it into another cursor or all cursors

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6. Miscellaneous

  • You can control some options like shadow for cursors (rendered by Windows, not WinPaletter), cursor tracking (sonar) and trails

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5. Actions

  1. Load into current theme: it will load current cursors into current open WinPaletter theme, and will close this form so you can continue modifying other Windows aspects and finally press on Apply on main form to apply all aspects in the open theme.

  2. Quick apply: it will render and apply current cursors instantly to test their real effects on system.

  3. Cancel: it will close this form without loading any modification made to cursors

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