
Truly Canonical and the Ubuntu community need to do some work for this in terms of End-User customization, but bottom line is that this works.
Log out and log back in and you're set. In the Gnome Tweak Tool it look like this: Now install Gnome/Unity Tweak Tool and change the cursor theme within them.
Within the 'icons' folder you'll see a 'default' folder - open it - and open the 'index.theme' file (in gedit, in-case it doesn't open automatically), and change the theme name to the name of the cursor folder you copied (for example: 'neutral'). After doing so, go to /usr/share/icons and paste the folder of the cursors. Make sure one instance of the movie clip is present on the stage. Now, go to your downloads folder (from the Root Nautilus you just opened) and copy the folder of the downloaded cursor theme (not the. To create a custom cursor, do the following: Create a movie clip to use as your custom cursor. VERY CAREFUL DELETING AND MOVING FILES IN IT Next, open a terminal and type sudo nautilus and a Root Nautilus will launch. Sources, and untar it in the folder you downloaded.
Download your favorite cursor theme from Gnome Look or other.