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Re: Looking for X cursor theme with bigger or darker I-Beam

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Karl Vogel <vogelke@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
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Looking for X cursor theme with bigger or darker I-Beam Chris Green <cl@isbd.net> - 2024-11-17 17:00 +0100
  Re: Looking for X cursor theme with bigger or darker I-Beam Dan Ritter <dsr@randomstring.org> - 2024-11-17 18:40 +0100
    Re: Looking for X cursor theme with bigger or darker I-Beam Chris Green <cl@isbd.net> - 2024-11-17 19:20 +0100
      Re: Looking for X cursor theme with bigger or darker I-Beam Dan Ritter <dsr@randomstring.org> - 2024-11-17 19:40 +0100
        Re: Looking for X cursor theme with bigger or darker I-Beam debian-user@howorth.org.uk - 2024-11-17 21:30 +0100
          Re: Looking for X cursor theme with bigger or darker I-Beam <tomas@tuxteam.de> - 2024-11-18 06:40 +0100
            Re: Looking for X cursor theme with bigger or darker I-Beam debian-user@howorth.org.uk - 2024-11-18 21:20 +0100
  Re: Looking for X cursor theme with bigger or darker I-Beam Darac Marjal <lists-debian-user@bendel.debian.org> - 2024-11-17 21:00 +0100
  Re: Looking for X cursor theme with bigger or darker I-Beam Felix Miata <mrmazda@stanis.net> - 2024-11-17 21:20 +0100
    Re: Looking for X cursor theme with bigger or darker I-Beam Chris Green <cl@isbd.net> - 2024-11-17 22:30 +0100
      Re: Looking for X cursor theme with bigger or darker I-Beam Eric S Fraga <e.fraga@ucl.ac.uk> - 2024-11-18 11:00 +0100
        Re: Looking for X cursor theme with bigger or darker I-Beam Christoph Brinkhaus <c.brinkhaus@t-online.de> - 2024-11-20 14:50 +0100
  Re: Looking for X cursor theme with bigger or darker I-Beam Charles Curley <charlescurley@charlescurley.com> - 2024-11-17 22:30 +0100
    Re: Looking for X cursor theme with bigger or darker I-Beam Chris Green <cl@isbd.net> - 2024-11-17 23:30 +0100
      Re: Looking for X cursor theme with bigger or darker I-Beam Chris Green <cl@isbd.net> - 2024-11-18 00:00 +0100
        Re: Looking for X cursor theme with bigger or darker I-Beam debian-user@howorth.org.uk - 2024-11-18 21:40 +0100
          Re: Looking for X cursor theme with bigger or darker I-Beam Chris Green <cl@isbd.net> - 2024-11-18 22:30 +0100
            Re: Looking for X cursor theme with bigger or darker I-Beam Fred <fred@blakemfg.com> - 2024-11-19 01:30 +0100
  Re: Looking for X cursor theme with bigger or darker I-Beam "Jonathan Dowland" <jmtd@debian.org> - 2024-11-19 11:20 +0100
  Re: Looking for X cursor theme with bigger or darker I-Beam Karl Vogel <vogelke@pobox.com> - 2024-12-05 11:20 +0100
    Re: Looking for X cursor theme with bigger or darker I-Beam Chris Green <cl@isbd.net> - 2024-12-05 14:20 +0100

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