F17 cursor problem : request

[Matthew Saltzman]

On Thu, 2012-07-05 at 17:24 -0400, Beartooth wrote: 
> 	My antiquated eyeballs have lots of trouble finding the mouse 
> cursor, especially when it turns itself into a very thin line, as it 
> often does in Pan and in gnome-terminal.
> 
> 	The eyeballs on the panels help some, especially if I manage to 
> center them. But CentOS 6 has a better way. If I choose the oxygen theme, 
> I can get a big fat yellow arrow. (It also turns into a line sometimes, 
> but even then, it's much bigger, and still yellow.
> 
> 	Would somebody who knows how please make this available in 
> Fedora, or write a pons asinorum for it? When you get seriously old, 
> you'll be glad you did.

In GNOME, at least, there is a mouse setting that will highlight the
cursor with an animation when you press and release the control key.
That might help a bit.

> 

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Matthew Saltzman
Clemson University Math Sciences
mjs AT clemson DOT edu