Mouse cursors

Zorite can restyle the mouse cursor inside its windows — the arrow, the text I-beam, the pointing hand, resize arrows, all of it. Outside Zorite your system cursors are untouched.

Picking a cursor theme

Settings → Appearance → Mouse cursor offers:

• System (default) — your OS cursors, unchanged.
• Bibata-Catppuccin-Mocha — the bundled Bibata set in Catppuccin Mocha.
• Bibata (match theme) — the same cursor shapes, re-colored live from your active theme: the body takes the accent color, the outline the text color. Switch skins or light/dark — including your own custom .json themes — and the cursors follow instantly.
• Any theme you’ve added (see below), with an extra “(match theme)” entry when the pack carries SVG sources.

Changes apply immediately on macOS and Windows; on Linux a change takes effect the next time Zorite starts (cursor themes there are read by the display connection at launch).

Adding your own

Cursor packs work like fonts: click Add cursor theme… and pick a theme folder, or use Reveal cursors folder and drop folders in yourself. The selection is per-notebook and travels with your data folder.

Two pack formats are accepted (a folder can carry both):

XCursor themes (ready-made)

The standard Linux cursor-theme format — a folder with a cursors/ directory inside (usually alongside an index.theme). Thousands of finished themes exist; pick the theme’s folder and it imports as a fixed-color pack. Hotspots come from the files themselves.

SVG packs (theme-reactive)

A pack that also contains an svg/ folder renders theme-reactively, like the bundled Bibata. One SVG per cursor, named by the standard cursor names — default.svg, text.svg, pointer.svg, grabbing.svg, ew-resize.svg, and so on — using Bibata’s color-slot convention:

Slot color	Becomes
#00FF00	the cursor body → your theme’s accent
#0000FF	the outline → your theme’s text color
#FF0000	accents (watch hands, etc.) → the accent

Since upstream Bibata publishes its SVG sources in exactly this convention, they’re a ready starting point for your own shapes.

Hotspots (the pixel that actually clicks) resolve from the pack’s raster cursors/ files when present; an SVG-only pack instead includes a hotspots.json with coordinates on a 64px grid:

{ "default": [13, 5], "text": [30, 32], "pointer": [22, 8] }

Platform notes

• macOS — all cursor shapes are themed, at Retina sharpness.
• Windows — Windows shares one cursor across several roles (all horizontal resizes are one cursor, for example), so themes apply at that granularity.
• Linux — works on X11 and Wayland through the system’s own cursor-theme mechanism; changes take effect on the next launch.