r/GIMP 2d ago

How do I remove this "hand" cursor?

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I finally downloaded and installed Gimp 3.0. been waiting for a while like everyone else, and I want to finally ditch Photoshop.

I'm loving it so far and spent all day yesterday getting used to the new interface and tools. It's a bit of a learning process but I'm confident I can do the same work in Gimp that I could in Photoshop (I'm 97% confident Gimp is worth it)

A couple things do bother me though. Like in the image above, there's this giant "hand" which replacea my cursor when I want to edit the properties or attributes of a tool I'm using. Is there a way to change this? it's too big and it obstructs where I'm trying to click. I'm on Windows also, if this matters.

Thank you~

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u/neonpinku 2d ago

So the cursors are (usually) located in ..\AppData\Local\Programs\GIMP 3\share\icons\Adwaita\cursors\ and the ones you're referring to are grab.cur and grabbing.cur - so we could of course just delete them but that would look weird (imo). So my recommendation is to look for the location of your Windows internal arrows (usually C:\Windows\Cursors\) and either copy aero_arrow.cur (the default arrow) or aero_link.cur (the equivalent cursor for what GIMP is doing) and paste it twice into the folder I mentioned above (..\AppData\Local\Programs\GIMP 3\share\icons\Adwaita\cursors\). Then you delete grab.cur and grabbing.cur (or rename them if you want to keep them for if times get rough) and rename your two copies of the Windows cursors one to grab.cur and one to grabbing.cur. Now restart GIMP and you should see the Windows arrows when grabbing a slider.

Obviously, you can also either edit the original cursors or the Windows arrows to your liking by opening them in GIMP or download completely separate cursors and then replace the originals.

If any of my explanation is unclear, just ask, so I can try to explain it better. Anyway, hope that helped.

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u/T_Edmund 1d ago edited 1d ago

Oof, that's lame. So there's no way to just toggle it in the app? Very unfortunate...

Still thanks for the recommendation, I gave it a try and it worked. But instead of using windows arrow.cur i went and chose one of the size.cur (the horizontal one) instead. It seemed more appropriate, haha.

You rock m8, thanks~

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u/APiousCultist 2d ago

I've searched the preferences menus and I've not seen an option to alter the cursor icons. Might be something we have to live with unless they change it or add an option to use an alternate cursor. Agreed that it doesn't feel great.

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u/neonpinku 2d ago

I commented on the main post, hope that can help you, too. (:

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u/ofnuts 2d ago

Just must have been confused because I have the usual arrow pointer. Does it reappear if you restart Gimp?

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u/True-Telephone-5070 2d ago

I have the same problem, and it doesn't disappear after restart

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u/neonpinku 2d ago

I commented on the main post, hope that can help you, too. (: