Alan Coopersmith wrote:
> Paul Gress wrote:
>
>> Alan Coopersmith wrote:
>>
>>> Paul Gress wrote:
>>>
>>>> Hi,
>>>>
>>>> I've installed B84 on my laptop and set it up to my liking. The
>>>> screen on is a 17 inch widescreen at 1920 x 1200. Very sharp at
>>>> approx 150 dpi. All is fine except for one thing, the size of the
>>>> cursor, to small. I'd like to increase its size. On one of my
>>>> Solaris 10 computers it would simply be go to the "Preferences >
>>>> Desktop Preferences > Mouse" and one of the properties is "Cursors".
>>>> This is missing in Solaris Express. How would I change the size in
>>>> Solaris Express?
>>>>
>>> It's now in the Appearance preferences panel.
>>>
>>>
>> Just went to the Appearance Preferences Panel, not there. Maybe b85 or
>> b86? I tried a different setting using gconf-editor, under
>> /desktop/gnome/peripherals/mouse" is a setting for cursor size. That
>> didn't work also. I saw you also blogged about xcursor.theme. Is there
>> a listing of all the different possible settings?
>>
>
> Sorry - it's well hidden - just checked on a machine running b79b (SXDE 1/08),
> and under Appearance, choose the Theme tab, then click Customize, and then the
> Pointer tab, and then choose something other than Default Pointer for the Size
> options to become selectable. I don't know why the GNOME people thought this
> was such a dangerous option to hide it this deep so no mortal user could find
> it.
>
>
>
Thanks Alan, it helps a lot. Is there a way to install more pointer
themes? Basically I'd like to get the default pointer larger.
