Re: Looking for X cursor theme with bigger or darker I-Beam
<tomas@tuxteam.de> wrote:
> On Sun, Nov 17, 2024 at 08:25:33PM +0000, debian-user@howorth.org.uk
> wrote:
> > Dan Ritter <dsr@randomstring.org> wrote:
> > > Chris Green wrote:
> > > > Dan Ritter <dsr@randomstring.org> wrote:
> > > > > Chris Green wrote:
> > > > >
> > > > > Most terminals offer the ability to change the cursor color
> > > > > when the cursor is in them. In the settings for xfterminal,
> > > > > I'm pretty sure you can set that. Go look?
> > > > >
> > > > It's not the terminal cursor so I don't think the terminal can
> > > > do anything aboout its colour.
> > >
> > > You might be correct, but right now, you're not expending the
> > > fractional effort necessary to find out.
> > >
> > > Nobody should be willing to spend more effort on solving your
> > > problem than you.
> >
> > That's insulting. Chris is quite right. Terminals commonly have the
> > means to alter some attributes of the terminal cursor, but never
> > the X cursor in my experience.
>
> Note that it is the terminal (or whatever application) who "tells" X
> what cursor to set when moving "over" some application's window. It
> is in the X11 protocol. This usually results in that "I-Beam" cursor.
I am talking about attributes of the cursor, such as colours, not about
the Cursor Attribute of a Window, as discussed in your reference.
Once again, I know that many terminals offer the ability to change
attributes of the terminal cursor, but none that can affect the
attributes (colours) of the X cursor. And my belief is that Chris
shares that same understanding so his response was reasonable.
The X cursor font can be set by a command line argument when starting
the X server. All a window does is choose which character within that
font that is used over particular regions of its window(s).
It is possible to select a larger font for the X cursor. Perhaps that
may be a solution for Chris?
> So to decide whether it's "insulting" or Dan actually has a point,
> you better read up in the reference below.
>
> Dan is talking about the X "cursor" (which we better call "pointer" to
> avoid confusion). Nobody's talking about the term cursor.
>
> Cheers
>
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> https://x.org/releases/current/doc/libX11/libX11/libX11.html#Cursor_Attribute
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