Re: F17 cursor problem : request

2012-07-08 Thread Mikkel L. Ellertson
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 07/08/2012 04:09 PM, Beartooth wrote: > On Sat, 07 Jul 2012 19:08:13 -0500, Mikkel L. Ellertson wrote: > > [] >> Under Gnome, if you open Advanced Settings --> Theme --> Cursor theme >> you can select different cursor themes including different

Re: F17 cursor problem : request

2012-07-08 Thread Beartooth
On Sat, 07 Jul 2012 19:08:13 -0500, Mikkel L. Ellertson wrote: [] > Under Gnome, if you open Advanced Settings --> Theme --> Cursor theme > you can select different cursor themes including different colors and > sizes. The only hard part is that you do not get a preview. Well,

Re: F17 cursor problem : request

2012-07-07 Thread Ed Greshko
On 07/08/2012 09:23 AM, Joe Zeff wrote: > On 07/07/2012 05:08 PM, Mikkel L. Ellertson wrote: >> Under Gnome, if you open Advanced Settings --> Theme --> Cursor >> theme you can select different cursor themes including different >> colors and sizes. The only hard part is that you do not get a previe

Re: F17 cursor problem : request

2012-07-07 Thread Joe Zeff
On 07/07/2012 05:08 PM, Mikkel L. Ellertson wrote: Under Gnome, if you open Advanced Settings --> Theme --> Cursor theme you can select different cursor themes including different colors and sizes. The only hard part is that you do not get a preview. Interesting. Under Xfce, when you go to Set

Re: F17 cursor problem : request

2012-07-07 Thread Mikkel L. Ellertson
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 07/06/2012 08:54 PM, Tim wrote: > On Fri, 2012-07-06 at 20:33 +, Beartooth wrote: >> But even the control key function *and* a pair of eyes on each of >> two panels, together, are still more distracting and less convenient >> than a good big mo

Re: F17 cursor problem : request

2012-07-06 Thread Ed Greshko
On 07/07/2012 09:54 AM, Tim wrote: > On Fri, 2012-07-06 at 20:33 +, Beartooth wrote: >> But even the control key function *and* a pair of eyes on each of >> two panels, together, are still more distracting and less convenient >> than a good big mouse cursor, especially a colored one. > Yes, at

Re: F17 cursor problem : request

2012-07-06 Thread Tim
On Fri, 2012-07-06 at 20:33 +, Beartooth wrote: > But even the control key function *and* a pair of eyes on each of > two panels, together, are still more distracting and less convenient > than a good big mouse cursor, especially a colored one. Yes, at times I've lost my mouse, and found it v

Re: F17 cursor problem : request

2012-07-06 Thread Joe Zeff
On 07/06/2012 01:33 PM, Beartooth wrote: Yes, and I used it. I always set it when I find it, but it seems to move -- and I'm pretty sure it's missing from xfce. Alas, it is. Maybe if both of us campaigned for it on the Xfce forum, it might get into the next release. -- users mailing

Re: F17 cursor problem : request

2012-07-06 Thread Beartooth
On Thu, 05 Jul 2012 23:59:25 +0200, Christopher Svanefalk wrote: > On Thu, Jul 5, 2012 at 11:49 PM, Joe Zeff wrote: > >> On 07/05/2012 02:24 PM, Beartooth wrote: >> >>> Would somebody who knows how please make this available in >>> Fedora, or write a pons asinorum for it? When you get se

Re: F17 cursor problem : request

2012-07-05 Thread Matthew Saltzman
On Thu, 2012-07-05 at 17:24 -0400, Beartooth wrote: > My antiquated eyeballs have lots of trouble finding the mouse > cursor, especially when it turns itself into a very thin line, as it > often does in Pan and in gnome-terminal. > > The eyeballs on the panels help some, especially

Re: F17 cursor problem : request

2012-07-05 Thread Joe Zeff
On 07/05/2012 02:59 PM, Christopher Svanefalk wrote: It is possible. Go to Settings -> Mouse and Touchpad. Under the tab Mouse, select "show position of the cursor when the Control key is pressed". After this, you can get the location of the cursor (with a nice animation) by just pressing CTRL.

Re: F17 cursor problem : request

2012-07-05 Thread Christopher Svanefalk
On Thu, Jul 5, 2012 at 11:49 PM, Joe Zeff wrote: > On 07/05/2012 02:24 PM, Beartooth wrote: > >> Would somebody who knows how please make this available in >> Fedora, or write a pons asinorum for it? When you get seriously old, >> you'll be glad you did. >> > > Gnome 2 had something built

Re: F17 cursor problem : request

2012-07-05 Thread Joe Zeff
On 07/05/2012 02:24 PM, Beartooth wrote: Would somebody who knows how please make this available in Fedora, or write a pons asinorum for it? When you get seriously old, you'll be glad you did. Gnome 2 had something built in that would show you where the cursor was when you tapped the c

F17 cursor problem : request

2012-07-05 Thread Beartooth
My antiquated eyeballs have lots of trouble finding the mouse cursor, especially when it turns itself into a very thin line, as it often does in Pan and in gnome-terminal. The eyeballs on the panels help some, especially if I manage to center them. But CentOS 6 has a better way