On 2021-07-08 14:31:42 dep via tde-users wrote:
> Hi, everybody!
>
> There's something I had with OS/2 that I haven't had since then despite
> searching for it. Such a thing, if we had it for the various Linices,
> would be pretty cool and pretty useful.
>
> I paid ~$50 for a little OS/2 utility that let one fashion his own cursors
> and mouse pointers (for the GUI, the WorkPlace Shell). Big whoop, right?
> Ah, but . . . you could make them so they would be the *opposite* of
> whatever they were over, even if they were over two or more different
> colors. This made them tremendously visible and now, 23 years after
> switching to Linux, I still miss them. Oh, and after a user-specified time
> of inactivity, the mouse pointer, I-bar pointer, etc., would disappear
> until the mouse is touched again. The program created the pointers; they
> could then be put on machines that didn't have the program, and they would
> work just fine on those (as long as they were running OS/2).
>
> Does anyone know of a TDE-compatible mouse theme that does most of the
> above? The switch to opposite color (I set it to work as greyscale,
> because the oposite of verious colors can be awful, so it merely took the
> luminance of whatever was beneath) is most important, though the auto-fade
> would be great, too -- then one can select a position in text without
> partially obscuring it.
>
> If we don't have it, we should, though I do not know if it is possible
> under any of the Linux desktops. Even 30 years ago, the WPS was pretty
> sophisticated.
Heh. AmigaOS also had such a tool also. The mouse pointer/cursor in Linux appears to be
an X component; one would think that such an editing tool would be available, but perhaps
the obscurities of X prevent anyone from creating one.
As a left-hander, I've wished since I started using Linux that I could flip the mouse
pointer to match my personal orientation, but as you have found, there is no tool to do
this.
Leslie
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Distribution: openSUSE Leap 15.3 x86_64
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Qt: 3.5.0
TDE: R14.0.10
tde-config: 1.0
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