On Tue, 18 Jan 2011, Gene Heskett wrote:
On Tuesday, January 18, 2011 05:17:14 pm Thomas Dickey did opine:
On Tue, 18 Jan 2011, James Cloos wrote:
"r" == rhubarbpieguy <[email protected]> writes:
r> Is it possible to replace the I-beam cursor system wide through X?
Sure. You need to change the (server-side) cursor font used by older
applications and also change the cursor theme used by most newer apps.
Google should point to decent explanations of how to do those.
You probably want to start by editing your favourite cursor theme
to use something other than a I-beam in that spot (I beleive that
cursor's name is 'xterm') and re-generate it. You may find that
to be sufficient for your needs.
man xterm (resources)
pointerMode (class PointerMode)
Specifies when the pointer may be hidden as the user
types. It will be redisplayed if the user moves the mouse, or clicks
one of its buttons.
0 never
1 the application running in xterm has not
activated mouse mode. This is the default.
2 always.
pointerShape (class Cursor)
Specifies the name of the shape of the pointer. The
default is "xterm."
That it is, but where is the list and description of the other options so
that we can make considered choices?
The list is buried away in X's documentation (as suggested, google can
help). Since you want a smaller cursor, I also pasted in the part of
xterm's manpage which shows that you can hide the cursor - that's simpler.
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Thomas E. Dickey
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