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On Mon, 19 Oct 2015, . . wrote:

   Presumably the point where the hairs cross would follow the mouse.

Yes, that's correct; like a draftsman's crosshair.

    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.


If I understand you, yes, that should work. But how is that done? I tried changing Xcursor.size in .Xresources but it didn't take?

        I haven't actually tried this, but:

        Make an enormous transparent-background crosshairs PNG with GIMP.

        Use xcursorgen (man xcursorgen) to convert it into X cursor format.

        Stick the resulting cursor file wherever you put cursors. (I can't
actually find them on my system, and I'm running Slackware anyway, which
you're probably not.)

- -- John Campbell
[email protected]

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