On 11/18/24 14:17, Chris Green wrote:
debian-u...@howorth.org.uk wrote:
Chris Green <c...@isbd.net> wrote:
Chris Green <c...@isbd.net> wrote:
Charles Curley <charlescur...@charlescurley.com> wrote:
On Sun, 17 Nov 2024 15:40:05 +0000
Chris Green <c...@isbd.net> wrote:
So, do any of the cursor themes in xcursor-themes actually
change the I-Beam cursor? I've looked at a couple of other
sets of cursor themes and they don't change the I-Beam at all,
they just change all the other ones.
Yes. I get a nice big red cursor for most of my windows, except
xfce4-terminal windows. But it's big and stands out nicely there.
But the one thing I want to change is the X cursor in
xfce4-terminal!
Here's what I do:
apt install xcursor-themes galternatives
Then use galternatives to update x-cursor-theme to point to
redglass.theme. Then "xfce4-mouse-settings &" or settings-> mouse
and touchpad-> theme to invoke redglass and set the cursor size to
something large like 36.
Yes, works exactly as you say, big red cursors everywhere **except**
for the I-Beam cursor when crossing terminal windows. As that's the
only thing I want to do the above change doesn't help me much! :-)
Not quite true! Although most of the cursor changes when you change
cursor theme are immediate some changes don't happen unless you log
out and then back in. There are even some changes that survive that
and you actually have to power cycle the system to get the changes to
be effective. In particular the appearance of the I-Beam cursor on
terminal windows doesn't change unless you log out and back in.
I can believe that you need to restart the X server for some changes to
take effect.
Thus I have managed to improve the visibility of the mouse cursor on
terminal windows by changing to the DMZ (White) theme and increasing
the cursor size a bit. It's still far from perfect, I'd really like a
different shape for the pointer in this particular case but it's
better.
Thanks for all the help everyone and sorry if I got a bit grumpy at
times.
TBH, if xfce4-terminal was giving me such grief, I'd simply switch to
some other terminal program. It doesn't really matter which you use.
I suspect that most of them will share the same ancestry (VTE) so it's
difficult to escape! :-)
It's not a really **major** issue for me anyway, most of the time I
have no problems, it's just that occasionally I lose the X cursor and
thus a larger and more visible one when it's on a terminal background
would be handy.
Hi,
Why don't you just change the background, maybe just a little, to make
the existing cursor more visible?
Best regards,
Fred
