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On Mon, 19 Oct 2015, chris yarger wrote:
why would you use a mouse cursor for this? it seems since it would be in a
static position if it goes across the whole screen, some sort of screen
overlay, like XOSD or GLXOSD might be more appropriate.
Presumably the point where the hairs cross would follow the mouse.
I'm not sure if there's a size limit on mouse cursors, but if not,
just making a crosshairs cursor more than twice the height/width of your
screen should do the job.
On Mon, Oct 19, 2015 at 6:18 AM, . . <[email protected]> wrote:
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.
- --
John Campbell
[email protected]
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