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[Henk Breimer]

On Sun, 05 Jun 2011 11:50:55 +1000
Roger <arelem at bigpond.com> wrote:

> On Sun, 2011-06-05 at 11:13 +0100, Ian Malone wrote:
> > On 5 June 2011 09:16, david grant <dg at david-grant.com> wrote:
> > > I know its frowned upon to complain about not getting responses on
> > > forums but I am mystified that I didn't get a single response to
> > > my post below. I have a degree of visual impairment but I cannot
> > > believe that I am the only potential user of Gnome 3 who would
> > > like an answer. So I resorted to classical marketing techniques
> > > to get this post read by a few people and I will get responses,
> > > some of which may be kind I only want a yes or no answer!!
> > >
> > >
> > 
> > Generally I've found when my posts go unanswered it's because no-one
> > has an idea. Maybe ask at the Gnome list
> > http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/gnome-list ?
> > 
> > -- 
> > imalone
> 
> 
> You did nothing wrong. If no one has an reply then you get none.
> 
> I found, with Fedora 14 if you go to:
> <system><preferences><appearance><theme><customise><pointer> there is
> an option to make the pointer different sizes.
> 
> It's the same sort of thing in Ubuntu 11.04 which has the unity
> interface.
> 
> I have no idea if this is helpful.
> Roger
> 

I could enlarge curser as follows:
install gconf-editor and start it
Go to desktop gnome peripherals mouse 
Then choose cursor_size
click and change size to your wishes
I chose 50 enlarging it by factor 2

success
Henk