21 May
2018
21 May
'18
9:47 p.m.
On Monday 21 May 2018 14:28:19 Leslie Turriff wrote:
On 2018-05-21 12:38:06 dep wrote:
I remember having that feature on an old Windoze system (2000 Pro or XP?), and
also on the rotten Apple before that, and on Amiga even before that. Nice,
because it's always visible over any background.
If you can find a package for it anywhere (deb or tar.gz or what-not), and
submit a request, you may find that the Trinity devs are willing to create
such a package for you.
When I installed my Debian OS, I started with the current KDE desktop, so I
got all cursors that appealed to me, and they work in Trinity even after I
have got rid of KDE. They also have left-handed mouses (mice? meece?). I use
a KDE animated cursor theme called TSC, which is made up of concentric
circles, sort of like a target, so that it is neutral in regard to whether
one uses the right or left hand; it's also visible against most backgrounds.
Bill
now if i could cook up the mouse cursor i've
wanted ever since i switched
from OS/2 to linux. there was an OS/2 utility that allowed one to write
one's own mouse (and other) cursors, and i got it and used it and loved
it because it was possible to make a pointer arrow that was the reverse
of whatever it was over -- black on white, white on black, blue on red,
etc., to the point of even being half one color and half the other when
it rested on an edge. this made it manifestly visible, always. linux has
nothing to match it and i intend to undertake a course of study that will
result in its being replicated for linux.
My old Amiga system had that capability too, but for some reason the Linux
desktops seem to have overlooked that particular customization. Being
strongly left-handed, I changed my cursor to point to the right instead of
the left, but on Linux I'm unable to do that. :-(
Leslie