I found this | https://userbase.kde.org/Create_your_own_mouse_cursor_theme which hopefully still works. If so, it should be distro-independent.
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On Friday 09 July 2021 15:59:40 PM (-04:00), J Leslie Turriff wrote:
I found this | https://userbase.kde.org/Create_your_own_mouse_cursor_theme which hopefully still works. If so, it should be distro-independent.
Leslie
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I found an article which indicates it can be done on Ubuntu. If it can be done with that, then I would think it could be done with any Linux distro. https://dipinkrishna.com/blog/2009/09/create-custom-mouse-cursourspointers-f...
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| I found an article which indicates it can be done on Ubuntu. If it can | be done with that, then I would think it could be done with any Linux | distro. | https://dipinkrishna.com/blog/2009/09/create-custom-mouse-cursourspointe |rs-for-your-ubuntu/
Thanks. The problem, though, isn't making cursors -- you can do that easily in any distribution or modify existing ones. The problem is creating reverse transparency, such that, say, you're pointing in a document to black text on a white background, and with such a pointer it would be white text on a black background. Thus, the pointer would be very visible without blocking anything. I can make one that's transparent, but that would be invisible. So it needs to be inverted. The article doesn't get into that. I'm not even sure it can be done under X. -- dep
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On 2021-07-09 16:29:27 dep via tde-users wrote:
said Edward: | I found an article which indicates it can be done on Ubuntu. If it can | be done with that, then I would think it could be done with any Linux | distro. | https://dipinkrishna.com/blog/2009/09/create-custom-mouse-cursourspointe |rs-for-your-ubuntu/
Thanks. The problem, though, isn't making cursors -- you can do that easily in any distribution or modify existing ones. The problem is creating reverse transparency, such that, say, you're pointing in a document to black text on a white background, and with such a pointer it would be white text on a black background. Thus, the pointer would be very visible without blocking anything. I can make one that's transparent, but that would be invisible. So it needs to be inverted. The article doesn't get into that. I'm not even sure it can be done under X. -- dep
I think you're right. I see many discussions of making reverse-video cursors for use in terminal(-emulator)s, but none for X cursors.
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