Re: Looking for X cursor theme with bigger or darker I-Beam
Chris Green composed on 2024-11-17 15:40 (UTC):
> I'm running Debian 12 on two systems, on both of them I use large
> terminal (xfce4) windows quite extensively and I use a light grey
> background in the terminal windows.
> This means that the default X cursor isn't very visible when it's
> somewhere in one of the terminal windows and I often have trouble
> seeing it.
> 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.
I don't often use XFCE, so have no meaningful familiarity with its own settings.
I use dmz-cursor-theme in Debian and elsewhere that offer it. It comes in various
sizes, plus two colors, black and white.
On Debian I typically add
Xcursor.theme: DMZ-White
Xcursor.size: 32
to some file in /etc/X11/Xresources. 48 is about two+ rows tall on my 24"
1920x1200 screen @120DPI. White's I-beam is white in center, with border black,
like pointer.
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