Hi, everybody!
There's something I had with OS/2 that I haven't had since then despite searching for it. Such a thing, if we had it for the various Linices, would be pretty cool and pretty useful.
I paid ~$50 for a little OS/2 utility that let one fashion his own cursors and mouse pointers (for the GUI, the WorkPlace Shell). Big whoop, right? Ah, but . . . you could make them so they would be the *opposite* of whatever they were over, even if they were over two or more different colors. This made them tremendously visible and now, 23 years after switching to Linux, I still miss them. Oh, and after a user-specified time of inactivity, the mouse pointer, I-bar pointer, etc., would disappear until the mouse is touched again. The program created the pointers; they could then be put on machines that didn't have the program, and they would work just fine on those (as long as they were running OS/2).
Does anyone know of a TDE-compatible mouse theme that does most of the above? The switch to opposite color (I set it to work as greyscale, because the oposite of verious colors can be awful, so it merely took the luminance of whatever was beneath) is most important, though the auto-fade would be great, too -- then one can select a position in text without partially obscuring it.
If we don't have it, we should, though I do not know if it is possible under any of the Linux desktops. Even 30 years ago, the WPS was pretty sophisticated. -- dep
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On 2021-07-08 14:31:42 dep via tde-users wrote:
Hi, everybody!
There's something I had with OS/2 that I haven't had since then despite searching for it. Such a thing, if we had it for the various Linices, would be pretty cool and pretty useful.
I paid ~$50 for a little OS/2 utility that let one fashion his own cursors and mouse pointers (for the GUI, the WorkPlace Shell). Big whoop, right? Ah, but . . . you could make them so they would be the *opposite* of whatever they were over, even if they were over two or more different colors. This made them tremendously visible and now, 23 years after switching to Linux, I still miss them. Oh, and after a user-specified time of inactivity, the mouse pointer, I-bar pointer, etc., would disappear until the mouse is touched again. The program created the pointers; they could then be put on machines that didn't have the program, and they would work just fine on those (as long as they were running OS/2).
Does anyone know of a TDE-compatible mouse theme that does most of the above? The switch to opposite color (I set it to work as greyscale, because the oposite of verious colors can be awful, so it merely took the luminance of whatever was beneath) is most important, though the auto-fade would be great, too -- then one can select a position in text without partially obscuring it.
If we don't have it, we should, though I do not know if it is possible under any of the Linux desktops. Even 30 years ago, the WPS was pretty sophisticated.
Heh. AmigaOS also had such a tool also. The mouse pointer/cursor in Linux appears to be an X component; one would think that such an editing tool would be available, but perhaps the obscurities of X prevent anyone from creating one. As a left-hander, I've wished since I started using Linux that I could flip the mouse pointer to match my personal orientation, but as you have found, there is no tool to do this.
Leslie -- Operating System: Linux Distribution: openSUSE Leap 15.3 x86_64 Desktop Environment: Trinity Qt: 3.5.0 TDE: R14.0.10 tde-config: 1.0
said J Leslie Turriff:
| As a left-hander, I've wished since I started using Linux that I could | flip the mouse pointer to match my personal orientation, but as you have | found, there is no tool to do this.
I think that there are left-handed mouse pointers in several of the mouse themes. I know there's a lefty one in redglass, which I use (I'm left-handed as well, though I use the redglass right pointer, because that's how it usually was and I grew accustomed to it. But I use the redlass theme and I see that there's a left pointer.) And I'm not sure but they may be .png files, so if you find a theme you like it *might* be possible to open it in the GIMP or something, flip it, and save it under its original name. Just remember to have a terminal open to start kcontrol to get out of it if it doesn't work. If it is .png, then it can be made transparent, but I don't know an opposite-of-transparent thing that follows whatever's behind it. -- dep
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Hi Leslie Turriff,
Am 08.Jul.2021 um 21:29 schrieben Sie:
I've wished since I started using Linux that I could flip the mouse pointer to match my personal orientation, but as you have found, there is no tool to do this.
In the internet there's a plethora of left-handed mouse-pointers available. Just google. Regards, Peter.
On Friday 09 July 2021 04:16:45 phiebie@drei.at wrote:
Hi Leslie Turriff,
Am 08.Jul.2021 um 21:29 schrieben Sie:
I've wished since I started using Linux that I could flip the mouse pointer to match my personal orientation, but as you have found, there is no tool to do this.
In the internet there's a plethora of left-handed mouse-pointers available. Just google. Regards, Peter.
You might consider using a mouse theme like TSC (see attached screenshot), which is made of concentric circles. Using it makes left- or right-handed meaningless, as it looks the same.
Users can reverse left and right clicks (but I forget where the settings are for that), and also make the mouse hide when not in use; but I imagine you probably knew that.
The only problem is that this theme (and several others that I have available) were got from the newer KDE4/5. I don't know if there is somewhere online to download this or other KDE themes.
I don't have KDE4/5 anything installed, and have purged my system of all their krap that I can find, so it is a mystery why I still have KDE4/5 mouse themes. It would be nice to be able to import some of their splash themes, too, as TDE splash themes are rather limited.
Bill
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