Allegedly, on or about 30 January 2014, Luke Nath sent:
> How do I change the mouse pointer shape in mate-terminal
> or gnome-terminal , from the fleur to a left pointing arrow head?
To attempt that, you're going to have to fight against the system which
uses long-standing conventions of altering the mouse pointer to indicate
what sorts of things it can do with where it's currently placed:
* I-beam pointer shape - you can copy text under the pointer into
a buffer, or click into that space and type into it (the text
isn't read-only).
* Arrow pointer - what's under the mouse can be moved (dragged),
or selected (clicked on).
* Hand pointer - what's under the mouse can be followed as a link
(e.g. links to internet addresses in webpages and emails).
* Busy-indicator - You can't currently do something with the mouse
(could be anything, or just what's under the mouse), because
some other process needs to complete, first.
And that's just the four that spring to mind, at the moment. There may
be others.
If you try and take away that functionality, you turn reading various
things into guessing games of what's just readable text, and what could
be interacted with, because you've taken away the mouse pointer hints,
and authors keep on taking away the hints that the user-agents provide
to indicate the type of page content (e.g. webpages where the links
aren't coloured, nor underlined). It becomes a game of hovering over
things, trying to find links. Or randomly clicking on things, in the
hopes that you can find the link.
If you really want to do that - and I've never seen anyone argue that
point with sensible justifications - look into how to customise the
shape of the mouse cursor, and use the same image for each type of
function.
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