Felix Miata <mrma...@stanis.net> wrote: > Chris Green composed on 2024-11-17 15:40 (UTC): > > > I'm running Debian 12 on two systems, on both of them I use large > > terminal (xfce4) windows quite extensively and I use a light grey > > background in the terminal windows. > > > This means that the default X cursor isn't very visible when it's > > somewhere in one of the terminal windows and I often have trouble > > seeing it. > > > So, do any of the cursor themes in xcursor-themes actually change the > > I-Beam cursor? I've looked at a couple of other sets of cursor themes > > and they don't change the I-Beam at all, they just change all the > > other ones. > > I don't often use XFCE, so have no meaningful familiarity with its own > settings. > > I use dmz-cursor-theme in Debian and elsewhere that offer it. It comes in > various > sizes, plus two colors, black and white. > > On Debian I typically add > > Xcursor.theme: DMZ-White > Xcursor.size: 32 > > to some file in /etc/X11/Xresources. 48 is about two+ rows tall on my 24" > 1920x1200 screen @120DPI. White's I-beam is white in center, with border > black, > like pointer.
Aha, that is at least getting me in the right direction. If I simply change the Xcursor.size: setting in /etc/X11/Xresources/x11-common then the X cursor in **most** places changes size. However the cursor when moving across an xfce4-terminal window stays obstinately as a small, not very visible, I-Beam. So, I think there must be something in xfce4-terminal that's determining what X cursor is used. Ah, no, it seems to be the same for any terminal window. If I run an xterm then that, too, has to small cursor. There seems to be some way thet terminal windows override the X cursor size setting. So is there some X resource setting relating specifically to the X-window cursor size on a terminal window? I'll have a dig around the xterm man page and its X resources. -- Chris Green ยท
