Hi all!
Is there a way to change the text cursor in TDEs text input fields? I have the naging problem, that the cursor is 1px wide and thus barely visible on HDPI displays. In an ideal world I could change that to a blinking block cursor or at least to a wider bar cursor. Did anybody coma across a way to do that in TDE?
Nik
On Friday 11 July 2025 04:23:23 Dr. Nikolaus Klepp via tde-users wrote:
Hi all!
Is there a way to change the text cursor in TDEs text input fields? I have the naging problem, that the cursor is 1px wide and thus barely visible on HDPI displays. In an ideal world I could change that to a blinking block cursor or at least to a wider bar cursor. Did anybody coma across a way to do that in TDE?
Nik
Do you mean in konsole-trinity? or other shells?
In konsole, for me at least it's easy.
konsole > Settings > Configure Konsole Configure > General click X for "Blinking cursor"
Schema Green on Black
Then click apply and save. Good idea to save session as a profile, to open with that profile. Also to save as default.
And then also in konsole, Settings > Font Make font size bigger, as this will increase the size of the cursor.
Somehow I got it set for block style blinking cursor, which is comfortably visible, but I searched everywhere for block cursor and can't find it.
Not sure if it's what you were asking, but this is what you get.
;-)
Bill
Hi Bill!
Anno domini 2025 Fri, 11 Jul 15:44:34 -0700 William Morder via tde-users scripsit:
On Friday 11 July 2025 04:23:23 Dr. Nikolaus Klepp via tde-users wrote:
Hi all!
Is there a way to change the text cursor in TDEs text input fields? I have the naging problem, that the cursor is 1px wide and thus barely visible on HDPI displays. In an ideal world I could change that to a blinking block cursor or at least to a wider bar cursor. Did anybody coma across a way to do that in TDE?
Nik
Do you mean in konsole-trinity? or other shells?
Oh, missing a detail: I mean the text cursor e.g. in konquerors URL line, or in kmail. As you say, konsole does have this setting.
Nik
In konsole, for me at least it's easy.
konsole > Settings > Configure Konsole Configure > General click X for "Blinking cursor"
Schema Green on Black
Then click apply and save. Good idea to save session as a profile, to open with that profile. Also to save as default.
And then also in konsole, Settings > Font Make font size bigger, as this will increase the size of the cursor.
Somehow I got it set for block style blinking cursor, which is comfortably visible, but I searched everywhere for block cursor and can't find it.
Not sure if it's what you were asking, but this is what you get.
;-)
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On Saturday 12 July 2025 07:50:58 Dr. Nikolaus Klepp via tde-users wrote:
Is there a way to change the text cursor in TDEs text input fields?
Just an iea, not an answer: I guess the cursor used could be an image, and maybe it could be possible to change that image.
A quick look at /opt/trinity did not tell me where such bitmaps could e stored, however, maybe someone which a better knowledge of trinity's structure can tell.
Thierry
On 2025-07-12 00:50:58 Dr. Nikolaus Klepp via tde-users wrote:
Hi Bill!
Anno domini 2025 Fri, 11 Jul 15:44:34 -0700
William Morder via tde-users scripsit:
On Friday 11 July 2025 04:23:23 Dr. Nikolaus Klepp via tde-users wrote:
Hi all!
Is there a way to change the text cursor in TDEs text input fields? I have the naging problem, that the cursor is 1px wide and thus barely visible on HDPI displays. In an ideal world I could change that to a blinking block cursor or at least to a wider bar cursor. Did anybody coma across a way to do that in TDE?
Nik
Do you mean in konsole-trinity? or other shells?
Oh, missing a detail: I mean the text cursor e.g. in konquerors URL line, or in kmail. As you say, konsole does have this setting.
Nik
In konsole, for me at least it's easy.
konsole > Settings > Configure Konsole Configure > General click X for "Blinking cursor"
Schema Green on Black
Then click apply and save. Good idea to save session as a profile, to open with that profile. Also to save as default.
And then also in konsole, Settings > Font Make font size bigger, as this will increase the size of the cursor.
Somehow I got it set for block style blinking cursor, which is comfortably visible, but I searched everywhere for block cursor and can't find it.
Not sure if it's what you were asking, but this is what you get.
;-)
Bill
Yes, this is a significant problem for me as well in Kate, Kmail and other GUI applications. I have been intending to look into modifying the cursor package (Control Center => Peripherals => Mouse, Cursor Theme tab) if I can figure out where it is stored.
Leslie
On Saturday 12 July 2025 14:53:51 J Leslie Turriff via tde-users wrote:
On 2025-07-12 00:50:58 Dr. Nikolaus Klepp via tde-users wrote:
Hi Bill!
Anno domini 2025 Fri, 11 Jul 15:44:34 -0700
William Morder via tde-users scripsit:
On Friday 11 July 2025 04:23:23 Dr. Nikolaus Klepp via tde-users wrote:
Hi all!
Is there a way to change the text cursor in TDEs text input fields? I have the naging problem, that the cursor is 1px wide and thus barely visible on HDPI displays. In an ideal world I could change that to a blinking block cursor or at least to a wider bar cursor. Did anybody coma across a way to do that in TDE?
Nik
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Yes, this is a significant problem for me as well in Kate, Kmail and other GUI applications. I have been intending to look into modifying the cursor package (Control Center => Peripherals => Mouse, Cursor Theme tab) if I can figure out where it is stored.
Leslie
I believe maybe this takes us back to the Trinity Control Center: TCC > Appearance & Themes > Fonts and other settings for dialogs, menus, input fields, etc.
However, you can only change colors, styles, fonts, etc., to make it more legible. The size of the cursor in those places cannot be changed, so far as I know. You could perhaps try changing font sizes, to see if this makes any difference; but I think those fonts are inside the main window of the Trinity application in question (Kate, Kmail, Konqueror ...), and changing their sizes will have no effect on the dialogs, menus and input fields.
You can make it more legible by changing contrast. This is why setting my colors took me weeks and maybe even months, almost 20 years ago now; I was trying to find a balance. Colors that contrast nicely in one location may not play well in a different location.
But to return to the main question, how to change the size of the cursor: that might not be found in the user's config files, or anywhere in opt; but rather probably exists in a folder of system images, probably in /usr or /etc or some location like that, and cannot be easily changed. Images that are used for system functions like input fields and address bars are most likely installed in batches when you install your OS. They are not intended to be touched or modified or deleted by the user.
Since we run GNU/Linux, though, silly rules like that don't apply to us.
Somebody mentioned bitmap images. I did try searching my system for .bmp files, but I would need to narrow the search terms to find anything meaningful.
Bill
On Saturday 12 July 2025 14:53:51 J Leslie Turriff via tde-users wrote:
This was sent after my last email, just a few minutes ago. I think I may have solved that problem, albeit not due to my own talents, but rather in spite of myself.
I already mentioned that you might want to look at the Trinity Control Center: TCC > Appearance & Themes > Fonts
Then I skipped over this, because of course I made all these settings way back in the antediluvian days of KDE3, Hardy Heron 8.04x, about 2006 or thereafter.
I think that this will do what you want; at least, it has allowed me to make my fonts in those places MUCH BIGGER. This affects input fields in Konqueror, Kmail, Kedit, all the Trinity applications that I tried.
Probably I did not bother readjusting these settings over the years, because I had it set once, on the original machine, and it has always suited me just fine ... except of course, time has passed, I have gone through a whole stable of machines, and I myself have grown older though not wiser, because I am totally in denial.
I've been having a hard time seeing a lot of things, especially on my machines. In the real world, I use the old-fashioned ways of coping, like getting bifocals when I changed the prescription for my glasses.
In the digital world, it seems like developers are obsessed with squeezing in the greatest amount of information possible into the smallest conceivable spaces, so icons & embedded fonts, etc., are getting smaller and smaller, and screen resolution gets finer and finer.
Anyway -- at least, in TDE -- you can still change this yourself. Just keep checking what you've changed, to see how it affects different applications. Already my own machine is easier on the eyes.
Bill
I am using X windows, I remember being able to change cursor size, theme using X command line tools. Right now my environmental variable says XCURSOR_THEME="HighContrast", perfect size, not beautiful.
said Greg Madden via tde-users: | I am using X windows, I remember being able to change cursor size, theme | using X command line tools. Right now my environmental variable says | XCURSOR_THEME="HighContrast", perfect size, not beautiful.
KControl > Peripherals > Mouse > Cursor theme.
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