I need cursor symbols that my antiquated eyeballs can spot even through trifocals. Last time I had a machine running CentOS (6.2 iirc) I had managed to get a big yellow arrow to show the mouse cursor. It was wonderful.
Now I have machines running Fedora (17 & 18) and Puppy (5.0) -- and even with eyes on two panels I have an awful time spotting the mouse cursor. Can anyone tell me a way to get my arrow back??
On 04/07/13 02:42, Beartooth wrote:
I need cursor symbols that my antiquated eyeballs can spot even through trifocals. Last time I had a machine running CentOS (6.2 iirc) I had managed to get a big yellow arrow to show the mouse cursor. It was wonderful.
Now I have machines running Fedora (17 & 18) and Puppy (5.0) -- and even with eyes on two panels I have an awful time spotting the mouse cursor. Can anyone tell me a way to get my arrow back??
And the DE you use?
In KDE it is easy to install cursor themes....
On Sun, 07 Apr 2013 05:17:58 +0800, Ed Greshko wrote:
On 04/07/13 02:42, Beartooth wrote:
I need cursor symbols that my antiquated eyeballs can spot even through trifocals. Last time I had a machine running CentOS (6.2 iirc) I had managed to get a big yellow arrow to show the mouse cursor. It was wonderful.
Now I have machines running Fedora (17 & 18) and Puppy (5.0) -- and even with eyes on two panels I have an awful time spotting the mouse cursor. Can anyone tell me a way to get my arrow back??
And the DE you use?
I wobble between xfce4 and Gnome's latest flavor in Fedora.
In KDE it is easy to install cursor themes....
Not to incite the DE wars, but KDE somehow always rubs me the wrong way, even though I don't finish an install without making sure I have Konqueror and K3B.
On Sat, 2013-04-06 at 18:42 +0000, Beartooth wrote:
I need cursor symbols that my antiquated eyeballs can spot even through trifocals. Last time I had a machine running CentOS (6.2 iirc) I had managed to get a big yellow arrow to show the mouse cursor. It was wonderful.
Now I have machines running Fedora (17 & 18) and Puppy (5.0) -- and even with eyes on two panels I have an awful time spotting the mouse cursor. Can anyone tell me a way to get my arrow back??
Not sure how to change arrows, but if you're using gnome-shell, you can install gnome-tweak-tool and under the mouse settings, you can set the cursor to highlight with a ripple effect when you press the control key. It's nice when the mouse is in a corner or the cursor is a vertical bar, and maybe helpful in your case as well.
On 04/06/2013 08:06 PM, Matthew Saltzman wrote:
On Sat, 2013-04-06 at 18:42 +0000, Beartooth wrote:
I need cursor symbols that my antiquated eyeballs can spot even through trifocals. Last time I had a machine running CentOS (6.2 iirc) I had managed to get a big yellow arrow to show the mouse cursor. It was wonderful.
Now I have machines running Fedora (17 & 18) and Puppy (5.0) -- and even with eyes on two panels I have an awful time spotting the mouse cursor. Can anyone tell me a way to get my arrow back??
Not sure how to change arrows, but if you're using gnome-shell, you can install gnome-tweak-tool and under the mouse settings, you can set the cursor to highlight with a ripple effect when you press the control key. It's nice when the mouse is in a corner or the cursor is a vertical bar, and maybe helpful in your case as well.
If you're running Gnome.........try these:
http://gnome-look.org/content/show.php/Big+Arrow?content=155650
On Sun, Apr 07, 2013 at 12:06:26AM +0000, Matthew Saltzman wrote:
On Sat, 2013-04-06 at 18:42 +0000, Beartooth wrote:
I need cursor symbols that my antiquated eyeballs can spot even through trifocals. Last time I had a machine running CentOS (6.2 iirc) I had managed to get a big yellow arrow to show the mouse cursor. It was wonderful. Now I have machines running Fedora (17 & 18) and Puppy (5.0) -- and even with eyes on two panels I have an awful time spotting the mouse cursor. Can anyone tell me a way to get my arrow back??
Not sure how to change arrows, but if you're using gnome-shell, you can install gnome-tweak-tool and under the mouse settings, you can set the cursor to highlight with a ripple effect when you press the control key. It's nice when the mouse is in a corner or the cursor is a vertical bar, and maybe helpful in your case as well.
Except that the ripple effesct is so weak you can hardly see it against a lot of backgrounds, especially bluish ones.
AV
On Sun, 07 Apr 2013 00:06:26 +0000, Matthew Saltzman wrote:
On Sat, 2013-04-06 at 18:42 +0000, Beartooth wrote:
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Now I have machines running Fedora (17 & 18) and Puppy (5.0) -- and even with eyes on two panels I have an awful time spotting the mouse cursor. Can anyone tell me a way to get my arrow back??
Not sure how to change arrows, but if you're using gnome-shell, you can install gnome-tweak-tool and under the mouse settings, you can set the cursor to highlight with a ripple effect when you press the control key.
I've been looking for that. I used to use it and also two pair of eyes (bottom and left panels) under Gnome 2, but I haven't managed to find either.
I also have gnome-tweak-tool -- which gives me a screenful or two of error messages when I invoke it, but mine seems not to have any idea that there is such a thing as a mouse. :-{
I see the image of a two-handled mug with mouse, calculator, gnome foot, etc., and a pair of eyes looking up at them. but I can't find any mouse settings under any of the rubrics.
It's nice when the mouse is in a corner or the cursor is a vertical bar, and maybe helpful in your case as well.
It was, yes, decidedly -- when I once got to it. So were the panel eyes: they track the cursor, and with two pair you can navigate by the seat of your pants to the intersection, and usually spot the cursor there.
Allegedly, on or about 06 April 2013, Beartooth sent:
I need cursor symbols that my antiquated eyeballs can spoteven through trifocals. Last time I had a machine running CentOS (6.2 iirc) I had managed to get a big yellow arrow to show the mouse cursor. It was wonderful.
Now I have machines running Fedora (17 & 18) and Puppy (5.0) -and even with eyes on two panels I have an awful time spotting the mouse cursor. Can anyone tell me a way to get my arrow back??
I sympathise with you. Even with good eyesight, the mouse pointers disappear all too easily, and the special effect to reveal the position of the cursor when the control key is tapped isn't obvious enough, nor does it solve the problem of the pointer being too small all of the time, for some circumstances. I think it's about time that the mouse preferences gave some adjustable scaling control over the pointer size, so we don't have to mess around with themes to change the size of the pointer.
While on the theme, I wish programs that deal with precise alignment of things, but using the mouse, should have a function that extends crosshairs from the mouse focus point along to the rulers that the programs have along the edge of the window. But it's not just the rulers that are points of interest to users, sometimes you're aligning one object against others on the page.
On 06.04.2013 20:42, Beartooth wrote:
I need cursor symbols that my antiquated eyeballs can spot even through trifocals. Last time I had a machine running CentOS (6.2 iirc) I had managed to get a big yellow arrow to show the mouse cursor. It was wonderful.
Now I have machines running Fedora (17 & 18) and Puppy (5.0) -- and even with eyes on two panels I have an awful time spotting the mouse cursor. Can anyone tell me a way to get my arrow back??
KDE es tu amigo. :) http://goo.gl/vzLYR
poma
On 04/06/2013 11:42 AM, Beartooth wrote:
I need cursor symbols that my antiquated eyeballs can spot even through trifocals. Last time I had a machine running CentOS (6.2 iirc) I had managed to get a big yellow arrow to show the mouse cursor. It was wonderful.
Now I have machines running Fedora (17 & 18) and Puppy (5.0) -- and even with eyes on two panels I have an awful time spotting the mouse cursor. Can anyone tell me a way to get my arrow back??
Note quite what you are looking for but do either of your DEs have the ability to show the bulls-eye around the cursor location when you press control? In Mate you set this as part of the Mouse settings.
~~R
On Sun, 07 Apr 2013 23:12:30 -0700, Richard England wrote:
On 04/06/2013 11:42 AM, Beartooth wrote:
I need cursor symbols that my antiquated eyeballs can spot even through trifocals. Last time I had a machine running CentOS (6.2 iirc) I had managed to get a big yellow arrow to show the mouse cursor. It was wonderful.
Now I have machines running Fedora (17 & 18) and Puppy (5.0) -- and even with eyes on two panels I have an awful time spotting the mouse cursor. Can anyone tell me a way to get my arrow back??
Not quite what you are looking for but do either of your DEs have the ability to show the bulls-eye around the cursor location when you press control? In Mate you set this as part of the Mouse settings.
I do always set that, yes, as soon as I find it, and it does help; but I have yet to find it in Gnome 3 or xfce4. Anybody know where it lurks?
On 04/08/2013 12:32 PM, Beartooth wrote:
I do always set that, yes, as soon as I find it, and it does help; but I have yet to find it in Gnome 3 or xfce4. Anybody know where it lurks?
AFAIK, it's a Gnome thing. I've certainly not found the equivalent in Xfce, and I'd love to. If nothing else, it helps when you've brought the screen back up by moving the mouse and need to find out where it got to. Hmm, maybe I should go over to their forum and suggest it as an enhancement...
On Mon, 08 Apr 2013 12:43:26 -0700, Joe Zeff wrote:
AFAIK, it's a Gnome thing. I've certainly not found the equivalent in Xfce, and I'd love to. If nothing else, it helps when you've brought the screen back up by moving the mouse and need to find out where it got to. Hmm, maybe I should go over to their forum and suggest it as an enhancement...
Well, I do run Konqueror and K3B in both gnome and xfce, and I run gnome-terminal in xfce; if we can find a name for it, maybe yum can find it and then install it.
On 04/08/2013 01:56 PM, Beartooth wrote:
Well, I do run Konqueror and K3B in both gnome and xfce, and I run gnome-terminal in xfce; if we can find a name for it, maybe yum can find it and then install it.
Or, you can go here and add a "me too" comment: https://bugzilla.xfce.org/show_bug.cgi?id=9985
On Mon, 2013-04-08 at 12:43 -0700, Joe Zeff wrote:
On 04/08/2013 12:32 PM, Beartooth wrote:
I do always set that, yes, as soon as I find it, and it does help; but I have yet to find it in Gnome 3 or xfce4. Anybody know where it lurks?
AFAIK, it's a Gnome thing. I've certainly not found the equivalent in Xfce, and I'd love to. If nothing else, it helps when you've brought the screen back up by moving the mouse and need to find out where it got to. Hmm, maybe I should go over to their forum and suggest it as an enhancement...
It is a GNOME thing. I don't know if it's available in any other desktop managers.
Install gnome-tweak-tool, open it and select the Mouse menu item.
On 08.04.2013 21:32, Beartooth wrote:
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Not quite what you are looking for but do either of your DEs have the ability to show the bulls-eye around the cursor location when you press control? In Mate you set this as part of the Mouse settings.
I do always set that, yes, as soon as I find it, and it does help; but I have yet to find it in Gnome 3 or xfce4. Anybody know where it lurks?
Cursor Position for X(fce) ;) #!/bin/sh PATH="/usr/bin:$PATH"
eval $(xdotool getmouselocation --shell 2> /dev/null) animate -geometry +$(echo $X)+$(echo $Y) /foo/bar.gif & sleep 5 pkill animate
exit 0 EOF
The animate only missing feature is "-nodecor"(xv).
man 1 xdotool man 1 animate - ImageMagick
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