-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 On 07/06/2012 08:54 PM, Tim wrote: > On Fri, 2012-07-06 at 20:33 +0000, Beartooth wrote: >> But even the control key function *and* a pair of eyes on each of >> two panels, together, are still more distracting and less convenient >> than a good big mouse cursor, especially a colored one. > > Yes, at times I've lost my mouse, and found it very hard to find again. > Made all the more worse for Fedora's propensity for sending the mouse > running off wildly in some random direction if anything lightly touched > the mouse. Yes, it's done this since Red Hat Linux days, on several > completely different computers and mice (USB mice seem the less likely > to do it), and I'm not the only one to have brought this up. > > Like you, I've found a larger pointer and coloured one helpful, not that > I've found a way to do that on Linux. And the "show the mouse location > with an animation when I hit the control key," hasn't always been too > helpful, as the animation is tiny. At times I'd prefer another method > of mouse pointer location - selectable full screen cross hairs that went > completely from edge to edge. Quite apart from making it easy to find a > lost mouse pointer, it'd help an awful lot when it comes to placing > things in the right place on the page for desk top publishing and > graphics work, when you want to align one thing against something else > that it's nowhere near (objects on the page, or rulers along the edge of > the window). > Under Gnome, if you open Advanced Settings --> Theme --> Cursor theme you can select different cursor themes including different colors and sizes. The only hard part is that you do not get a preview. Mikkel - -- Do not meddle in the affairs of dragons, for thou art crunchy and taste good with Ketchup! -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.12 (GNU/Linux) iEYEARECAAYFAk/4z20ACgkQqbQrVW3JyMRRBACeMYI2S0+KyS0r4UrDFoy4x05W UUYAnjDT4yxWHlI/qxtVAJet6p/8YP0e =3ZTm -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- -- users mailing list users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe or change subscription options: https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/users Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines Have a question? Ask away: http://ask.fedoraproject.org
