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> Subject: Re: Changing the mouse pointer shape in terminal. > From: ignored_mailbox@xxxxxxxxxxxx > To: users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx > Date: Sun, 2 Feb 2014 01:01:18 +1030 > > Allegedly, on or about 30 January 2014, Luke Nath sent: > > How do I change the mouse pointer shape in mate-terminal > > or gnome-terminal , from the fleur to a left pointing arrow head? > > To attempt that, you're going to have to fight against the system which > uses long-standing conventions of altering the mouse pointer to indicate > what sorts of things it can do with where it's currently placed: > > * I-beam pointer shape - you can copy text under the pointer into > a buffer, or click into that space and type into it (the text > isn't read-only). > * Arrow pointer - what's under the mouse can be moved (dragged), > or selected (clicked on). > * Hand pointer - what's under the mouse can be followed as a link > (e.g. links to internet addresses in webpages and emails). > * Busy-indicator - You can't currently do something with the mouse > (could be anything, or just what's under the mouse), because > some other process needs to complete, first. > > And that's just the four that spring to mind, at the moment. There may > be others. > > If you try and take away that functionality, you turn reading various > things into guessing games of what's just readable text, and what could > be interacted with, because you've taken away the mouse pointer hints, > and authors keep on taking away the hints that the user-agents provide > to indicate the type of page content (e.g. webpages where the links > aren't coloured, nor underlined). It becomes a game of hovering over > things, trying to find links. Or randomly clicking on things, in the > hopes that you can find the link. > > If you really want to do that - and I've never seen anyone argue that > point with sensible justifications - look into how to customise the > shape of the mouse cursor, and use the same image for each type of > function. > Thank you for a very lucid explanation. In gnome-terminal or mate-terminal, I have never seen the pointer shape become anything but the I beam. I use mostly vi or cat or more or less or type scripts. These are pretty much the text apps I use. In all of these "commands", the shape remains the I beam. Is there a way to change it to a left pointer just in the mate or gnome terminal? P.S: I recall that I used to be able to set it to left ptr in Xterm when I used to use BSD Unix. |
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