Disability relief

[Alexander Volovics]

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