Jack....the below message appeared on this list earlier today.
Tom's solution worked for me. I'm now using the BigCursor2.pcf,
it's great at 1280 x 1024.
Alan
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I believe i've found an easy way to make all your cursors
larger.
At http://www.linuxdoc.org/HOWTO/mini/X-Big-Cursor-3.html
there's instructions for making X cursors larger. I didn't
understand/couldn't get any of it to work :(
BUT I did a 'locate' and found
/home/tombr> locate cursor.pcf
/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/misc/cursor.pcf.gz
so I copied that file to a temp dir and gunzip'd it. Inside
was 'cursor.pcf' Hmmmmm :)
At http://i11www.ira.uka.de/~schneid/X11-big-cursor/fonts/
there's already pre-made 'cursorxx.pcf' files where the 'xx' is
the magnification. So I dl'd several and after 'mv'ing them to
'cursor.pcf', gzip'd them to 'cursor.pcf.gz'. Actually I created
sub-dirs named 1.5, 2.0, etc. to do this so I could keep them
straight. I then moved the one in the '2.0' dir to
/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/misc/cursor.pcf.gz (after backing up
the original).
Re-started X, and presto, all the various cursors were 2x as
big as the originals. A little too big. I settled on using
1.5,
they're quite an increase at 1024x768
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.. Tom Brinkman [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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Jack Malone wrote:
>
> I'm wondering if you can change the size of the mouse pointer in xwindoes.
> I have low vision an would love to make it bigger so its easier to spt on
> the screen.
>
> thanks
> jack
> Jack Malone
> [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> http://www.ballistic.com/~jemalone
>
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