On 10/20/2015 03:13 AM, John Campbell wrote:
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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
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Thank you, that worked. I now have a very large crosshair cursor. I'm
sure such a cursor isn't for most, but I thought I should update the
status. It might help someone.
