Changing Mouse Cursor Color

[Rich Shepard]

The background on my lyx window is a light-mustard yellow; much easier on
the eyes than is a stark white background. However, the mouse cursor (the I
beam) is a thin black line and I'm constantly losing sight of it. I don't
see an option in the color settings to change that.

I've changed the Cursor color to bright red, but don't see how to change
the mouse pointer color. Is there such a way?

Of course, this may well be window manager/desktop environment related and
not specific to lyx.

Rich

[Richard Heck]

Post by Rich Shepard
The background on my lyx window is a light-mustard yellow; much easier on
the eyes than is a stark white background. However, the mouse cursor (the I
beam) is a thin black line and I'm constantly losing sight of it. I don't
see an option in the color settings to change that.
I've changed the Cursor color to bright red, but don't see how to change
the mouse pointer color. Is there such a way?
Of course, this may well be window manager/desktop environment related and
not specific to lyx.

I would think so. LyX has access to cursor shape, but I do not think it
has access to the color.

rh

[Rich Shepard]

Post by Richard Heck
I would think so. LyX has access to cursor shape, but I do not think it
has access to the color.

Richard,

I can alter the mouse pointer size and color within the Xfce settings, but
that affects only certain applications (e.g., firefox). It doesn't work in
virtual consoles (such as with alpine) or with LyX. Sigh.

The positional cursor I have set to be red (it's a thin vertical line),
but the mouse pointer seems to be external to the application.

Thanks,

Rich

[Ingar Pareliussen]

Hi Rich

Changing the cursor theme works within KDE so it probably xfce is doing something wrong :)

Have you tried a restart of xcfe after you change the cursor theme, just write
xfwm4 --replace
in a command line (Alt-F2), after closing all documents of course :)

Ingar

[Rich Shepard]

Post by Ingar Pareliussen
Changing the cursor theme works within KDE so it probably xfce is doing something wrong :)

Ingar,

As I wrote yesterday, the mouse pointer is changed in some applicationss
(where it's shown as an arrow), but not in other applications where the
mouse pointer is a think 'I' beam. The latter is the mouse pointer in LyX.

Post by Ingar Pareliussen
Have you tried a restart of xcfe after you change the cursor theme, just
write xfwm4 --replace in a command line (Alt-F2), after closing all
documents of course :)

Don't need to restart X. The changes are immediately visible.

Thanks,

Rich