Sorry, I'm a bit behind on mail. On Sun 17 Nov 2024 at 10:50:31 (-0500), Chris Green wrote: > 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. > > Alternatively a way to simply change the colour of the I-Beam would > help, it's obviously designed to be most visible on a dark background.
http://shallowsky.com/linux/x-cursor-themes.html has some good tips. I use these settings for a nice visible plus-sign cursor in .Xdefaults: ! XTerm*pointerShape: double_arrow works, but is confusing when you ! try to lengthen a given window vertically. XTerm*pointerShape: plus XTerm*pointerColor: blue XTerm*pointerColorBackground: red > Please note this is the X/mouse cursor I'm talking about, not the text > cursor that shows where you are entering text in a terminal window. Since I prefer black text on a white background, I found a blue cursor to be more visible: XTerm.VT100*cursorColor: blue Some other settings I've found useful: ! scrollback buffer lines - 65535 is max on most machines ! (64 is default) XTerm*saveLines: 20000 ! Some OS versions get this wrong. XTerm.VT100*termName: xterm-color ! Xterm should do jump scrolling. Normally, text is scrolled one ! line at a time; this option allows xterm to move multiple lines at ! a time so that it does not fall as far behind. Its use is strongly ! recommended since it makes xterm much faster. XTerm*jumpScroll: true ! An xterm should be a login shell that honors .profile and ! generally initializes the shell environment the way you expect. ! I have no idea why the default is to not do this. XTerm*loginShell: true ! Xterm may scroll asynchronously, meaning that the screen does not ! have to be kept completely up to date while scrolling. This allows ! xterm to run faster. XTerm*multiScroll: true ! Uncomment this to use color for underline attribute XTerm.VT100*colorULMode: on XTerm.VT100*underLine: off ! Uncomment this to use color for the bold attribute XTerm.VT100*colorBDMode: on Hope this helps. -- Karl Vogel I don't speak for anyone but myself Please whitelist *.playboy.com because one of the law firm partners who signs the paychecks "likes to read the articles". --Reddit "unusual IT support tickets", 5 Nov 2024
