Karl Vogel <voge...@pobox.com> wrote: > 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 > Sadly xfce4-terminal doesn't know about X resources at all so adding stuff to .Xdefaults isn't going to change anything.
-- Chris Green ยท
