> I am aging and my vision is fading. I am now having issues > with being able to locate the cursor when editing because it > is so thin. I found the setting to switch to a larger mouse > pointer in Mepis, but I have not been able to locate a setting > for the cursor width. Is there such a beast? And if so, might > someone explain how I might find it? I suspect there's not a "setting" per-se as it would be part of the cursor theme. Fortunately, if you're somewhat artistically inclined (or have a youth around that feels artistic), it's not terribly difficult to create your own cursors/theme. I believe that Xorg comes with a utility called "xcursorgen" which simply takes a simple input file (the dimensions of your cursor, where the hotspot should be, and a PNG file-name), and create a cursor file from it. It even does animated cursors if you put more than one line in your input file. man xcursorgen If you snag this example and dump it in a temp folder somewhere: wget http://www.xaprb.com/articles/neutral.tar.gz and unpack it tar xvfz neutral.tar.gz you can poke in the source directory. I think you're looking for the cursor named "xterm". There's a shell script ("make.sh") which builds all the cursors from the *.in + *.png files. The format of the *.in files is pretty easy. The first number is the dimension of the cursor. Cursor files need to be square, so one number does the trick. Common dimensions include 16x16, 32x32, 48x48, and 64x64. The second pair of numbers is the hotspot, or where in your image the the "click" happens. For an i-beam cursor for text, it's likely in the middle of the i-beam. For an arrow, this is the tip of the arrow. Figuring this out is merely tedious. Having a "fat-bits" zoom in your image editor (Gimp or whatever) helps in counting off pixels. Next, in the *.in file, comes the name of the PNG file to use as the image. You can use your favorite PNG-editing software (or even non-PNG editing software, and then use ImageMagick to convert it to PNG) to create a cursor of your given dimensions (such as 32x32 or 48x48) that has what you want (thicker stem to the i-beam; or perhaps more visual indicator at the top and bottom such as a triangle/inverted-triangle). After the PNG file-name, optionally comes the delay, if you're making an animated cursor. If you're making it animated, you can have one line in your *.in file for each frame of the animation. The resulting output cursor files can be dumped into a folder named after your theme (such as "marbux-big/") and you should be able to load this as a theme. How to that may vary based on your desktop environment. You might have to create an "index.theme" file, such as the one in the above example file. Hope this helps you create your perfect cursor set... -tim PS: Are you the same marbux as on Groklaw? If so, many thanks for all your contributions and insights! _______________________________________________ Blinux-list mailing list Blinux-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/blinux-list