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

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You might try the "chameleon-cursor-theme" package. There are several 
coloured cursors in that, hopefully one of theme is more visible.

On 17/11/2024 15:40, 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.
>
> 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.
>
> 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.
>
> 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.
>

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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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