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

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Felix Miata <mrmazda@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
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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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