On 10/18/2015 05:42 AM, Sean Dague wrote:
On 10/17/2015 07:59 PM, . . wrote:
I'd like to change my default X cursor from the small black arrow to a
crosshair. The command "xsetroot -cursor_name crosshair" works, but for
xterm windows only. I've tried putting the command in .xinitrc and
themes in .Xdefaults without success.
What works? I simply want to see the crosshair cursor everywhere I now
see the small black arrow.
You probably need to build a cursor theme to be what you want -
https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Cursor_themes - looks like you
could probably take one of the default ones and copy around images until
it's to your liking.
-Sean
Thank you. All three responses were useful, but your link really
helped. I copied cross in /usr/share/icons/handhelds/cursors to every
*arrow image and set handhelds to the default. I now have a crosshair
where I had arrows.
My eventual goal is to have a crosshair encompassing the full width and
height of the screen - like a draftman's crosshair. I'll need to
research the expanded version, but it's good to know the crosshair part
can be easily done.
