On Thursday 01 June 2017 08:44:55 Slávek Banko wrote:

On Thursday 01 of June 2017 06:36:30 Lisi Reisz wrote:

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I have downloaded the Debian package big-cursor (I have sadly given up on comixcursors for now - I'll try again in Stretch). It is definitely there:

brian@Linux:/usr/share/fonts/X11/misc$ locate big-cursor /usr/share/doc/big-cursor /usr/share/doc/big-cursor/README.Debian /usr/share/doc/big-cursor/changelog.gz /usr/share/doc/big-cursor/copyright /usr/share/fonts/X11/misc/big-cursor.pcf.gz /var/cache/apt/archives/big-cursor_3.9_all.deb /var/lib/dpkg/info/big-cursor.list /var/lib/dpkg/info/big-cursor.md5sums /var/lib/dpkg/info/big-cursor.postinst /var/lib/dpkg/info/big-cursor.postrm /var/lib/dpkg/info/big-cursor.preinst brian@Linux:/usr/share/fonts/X11/misc$

But I cannot find a way of persuading Trinity Control Centre mouse themes to see it.

Any suggestions? Or any other suggestions as to how I can get a large, preferably red, cursor (but any large one will do) in Debian 8 and Trinity 14?

Thanks. Lisi

You can install some package with "cursor theme" - for example crystalcursors, comixcursors-righthanded, xcursor-themes,...

I installed two more, oxygen and crystal, and with the correction of PEBKAC ( which was all that was wrong with the dmz cursors :-( ), and Nik's advice I am, I think, home and dry for now.

It is a pity about comixcursors in Jessie. They are what I used to use. I have still not got around to that Stretch installation I was going to do. Other people's projects get priority. :-( I must hurry up and do so and see if the large comixcursors cursors work again.

Thank you very much for your help. Much appreciated as always.

Lisi

On Thursday 01 June 2017 09:05:16 Dr. Nikolaus Klepp wrote:

Hi Lisi!

Am Donnerstag, 1. Juni 2017 schrieb Lisi Reisz:

...

I have downloaded the Debian package big-cursor (I have sadly given up on comixcursors for now - I'll try again in Stretch). It is definitely there:

brian@Linux:/usr/share/fonts/X11/misc$ locate big-cursor /usr/share/doc/big-cursor /usr/share/doc/big-cursor/README.Debian /usr/share/doc/big-cursor/changelog.gz /usr/share/doc/big-cursor/copyright /usr/share/fonts/X11/misc/big-cursor.pcf.gz /var/cache/apt/archives/big-cursor_3.9_all.deb /var/lib/dpkg/info/big-cursor.list /var/lib/dpkg/info/big-cursor.md5sums /var/lib/dpkg/info/big-cursor.postinst /var/lib/dpkg/info/big-cursor.postrm /var/lib/dpkg/info/big-cursor.preinst brian@Linux:/usr/share/fonts/X11/misc$

But I cannot find a way of persuading Trinity Control Centre mouse themes to see it.

Any suggestions? Or any other suggestions as to how I can get a large, preferably red, cursor (but any large one will do) in Debian 8 and Trinity 14?

The "big-cursor"-package does not work out of the box (any more), I'm afraid.

Please install "xcursor-themes" and this line to your ~/.Xresources:

Xcursor.size: 48

When you restart TDE, the ~/.Xresources are usually loaded automaticly.

When you restart TDE, all good X11 apps have a 48 pixel cursor. That implies, all GNOME and GTK based stuff does not! So let's try to fix GNOME ingenuity:

Install "dconf-cli" and "lxappearance", set the cursor size for GTK3 apps (you could also edit ~/.config/gtk-3.0/settings.ini my hand):

$ dconf write /org/gnome/desktop/interface/cursor-size 48

this will not fix things like terminator/firefox/..., some apps like zim will partly work. Let's fix some GTK2 stuff:

$ lxappearance

Select whatever you like, but you cannot set the cursor size there. This has to be done manually:

$ kate ~/.gtkrc-2.0

Edit the line with gtk-cursor-theme-size:

gtk-cursor-theme-size=48

Now you know why I hate GNOMEs so much ... Anyway, restart TDE and everything should use 48 pixel cursor.

Wonderful! I edited .Xresources (or rather, created it) with 48 and we are almost home and dry. I haven't bothered with the gnome stuff for this particular application, since I don't think he will be using any (I'll cross that bridge if I have to do so!) but I may use it for myself. ;-) Thank you very much, Nik.

I assume that if that is still not big enough for him, I can use, say, 72?

Lisi