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 Pictures: http://www.ipernity.com/doc/depscribe/album Column: https://www.athensnews.com/opinion/columns/the_view_from_mudsock_heights/