Re: How to enable larger mouse pointers under X
On Sat, Nov 08, 2014 at 03:42:39PM +0000, Brian wrote:
> 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.
Yes, the time stamps are current.
> > 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
I will try this next time.
Do you have a reference about .xinitrc vs. .xsession?
Thanks,
Joel
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