Re: How to enable larger mouse pointers under X
On Fri 07 Nov 2014 at 22:21:27 -1000, Joel Roth wrote:
> I need larger mouse pointers.
>
> I'm running sid, using i3 and icewm as window managers.
> AIUI cursor images are set through X, and do not belong
> to the window manager.
Sid, JWM and no xdm here.
>
> My first attempt was:
>
> % apt-get install big-cursor
>
> Restarting X brings no change. The docs suggest commenting
> out "Xcursor.theme: whiteglass" in /etc/X11/xdm/Xresources,
> however this didn't help.
Works out of the box here. All the preinst script does is divert
cursor.pcf.gz in /usr/share/fonts/X11/misc, install big-cursor.pcf.gz
to the same directory and run update-fonts-dir. You could check all
this and the time stamps on encodings.dir and fonts.dir.
> Next I read the technical background[1] for the big-cursor
> package, and as advised, tried putting big-cursor.pcf into
> $HOME/fonts, and putting these lines into .xinitrc:
>
> xset +fp $HOME/fonts
> xset fp rehash
> xsetroot -cursor_name X_cursor
1. mkdir $HOME/fonts.
2. Copy big-cursor.pcf.gz from its package to $HOME/fonts.
3. mkfontdir $HOME/fonts.
4. In the ~/.xsession file all sensible Debian users have (no .xinitrc)
put
xset +fp $HOME/fonts
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