Change mouse arrow size?

Forum: Other Help Topics
Topic: Change mouse arrow size?
started by: alvez

Posted by alvez on Mar. 18 2006,23:47

I'm a new DSL user - just did a HD install onto my ancient ThinkPad 380D. Everything appears to be working fine, but the darn mouse arrow is hard to find most of the time.

I ran a search on how to change the size and other properties of the mouse arrow, but no luck so far.

Any help would be greatly appreciated.

Posted by mikshaw on Mar. 19 2006,06:41

In a vanilla DSL it would require changing the cursor font to an enlarged version. There is a big-cursor howto all over the internet which desribes how you can resize the standard X cursor, but unfortunately it requires an application that is not available in DSL (I don't even have it on my dev system). The howto also has a dead link to an archive of resized cursors, so I assume it is probably still floating around somewhere. It might take some searching, since the howto is nearly a decade old.

Posted by ^thehatsrule^ on Mar. 11 2007,06:36

There is some info in the (really long) DSL remastering thread...
See < http://damnsmalllinux.org/cgi-bin....;t=7177 >
Search around for "cursor"