said Dr. Nikolaus Klepp via tde-users: | Anno domini 2024 Fri, 20 Sep 07:27:19 +0000 | | dep via tde-users scripsit: | > On a Debian install, anyway, they're in /usr/share/icons, in | > /[directory name]/cursors. | > | > Now trying to figure out how to make the I-beam cursor in LibreOffice | > (or anything else; same problem in KWord, Abiword, and Calligra) much | > bolder. It's damn near invible and has been a problem for years. | > LibreOffice says to change it in Windows accessibility. I hope they | > step barefoot on a Lego left three steps up on the stairs. | > | > It is said there is some gtk setting that might fix it, but no one | > seems to know where or how. If it's hard coded, move that Lego to the | > ninth step. | > | > I think there used to be a KDE or TDE compatability package for | > LibreOffice, but if memory serves it was dropped years ago, and I | > don't know if it let TDE or Qt or something override the cursors. | | IMO you need all these 3 places to be changed - note: use a valid | Xcursor theme name if you want to change it from default:

Thanks. That's very helpful. The problem, though, isn't that they're not big enough but in the case of the I-beam -- the main offender -- too thin. Think the difference between regular and boldface.

Armed as I now am with the information you provided, I think I'll be able to edit a theme and make the appropriate cursors thicker, of a bright color, or both, and save 'em under their original name in their original place.

Looking online, LibreOffice has been receiving complaints about this issue for over a decade. They've done all sorts of stuff of marginal use, but ignored a problem with their core product. Kind of reminds me of KDE . . .

| | ~/.Xresources: | | ! Xcursor.theme: default | Xcursor.size: 48 | | | ~/.config/gtk-3.0/settings.ini: | | gtk-cursor-theme-name=Adwaita | gtk-cursor-theme-size=48 | | ~/.gtkrc-2.0: | gtk-cursor-theme-name="Adwaita" | gtk-cursor-theme-size=48 | | Nik | | > dep | > Pictures: http://www.ipernity.com/doc/depscribe/album | > Column: https://ofb.biz/author/dep/ | > ____________________________________________________ | > tde-users mailing list -- users@trinitydesktop.org | > To unsubscribe send an email to users-leave@trinitydesktop.org | > Web mail archive available at | > https://mail.trinitydesktop.org/mailman3/hyperkitty/list/users@trinity | >desktop.org | | -- | Please do not email me anything that you are not comfortable also | sharing with the NSA, CIA ... | ____________________________________________________ | tde-users mailing list -- users@trinitydesktop.org | To unsubscribe send an email to users-leave@trinitydesktop.org | Web mail archive available at | https://mail.trinitydesktop.org/mailman3/hyperkitty/list/users@trinityde |sktop.org

said Dr. Nikolaus Klepp via tde-users: | | IMO you need all these 3 places to be changed - note: use a valid | Xcursor theme name if you want to change it from default: | | ~/.Xresources: | | ! Xcursor.theme: default | Xcursor.size: 48

Aha! On a whim I made an .Xresources file containing what you describe, and it worked. But I've hit another bump: while 24 is too small, 48 tends to be too big. Neither 30, 32, or 36 seems to work at all. Am I stuck?

Apparently there is, or used to be, a way to set the whole thing, for the entire system. Haven't made it my own yet, though.

said Felix Miata via tde-users:

| Not all cursors come in a size between 22 and 48. Try 28. If that's no | help, try different cursors. The dmz-cursor-theme package provides 32. I | specify in /etc/X11/Xresources in some distros. In some others, I put a | file in | | /etc/X11/Xresources.d/. In Debian, it's: | > cat /etc/X11/Xresources/cursors32dmzw | | Xcursor.theme: DMZ-White | Xcursor.size: 32

I made a ~/.Xresources file that contains only the information Nik suggested. It is effective some places nod not someplaces. For instance, Textmaker, the cursors I specify show up perfectly -- and the red I-beam is Heaven! In LibreOffice, Firescape, and the sddm login screen, it does what it wants.

I did after some looking find a cursor that pretty much meeds my specs, XCursor Pro Red: https://store.kde.org/p/1639834 What's cool about it, beside it being very red, is this: XCursor Sizes: 22x22, 24x24, 28x28, 32x32, 40x40, 48x48, 56x56, 64x64, 72x72, 80x80, 88x88, 96x96

And here, 32 seems just about right, though I might get bored, or my eyesight continue its current path, and try 40.

| I'm thinking that in not all Linux releases and TDE releases is this | enough, but provides the means for using KControl to select DMZ White, | which then picks up size 32 from the global setting.

That's the issue here: establishing a global setting. Firefox can do what it wants; I don't much care. But LibreOffice says it gets its theme and size from the system. I have no idea where . . . Never mind! I just opened LibreOffice following a reboot, and it, and now Netfox, have a nice, thick, very red I-beam! Now I don't have to spend half the time chasing my cursor around and can devote myself to bad writing. the gtk-3.0 config file did the trick -- which it hadn't done earlier.

Thanks to you and Nik (and Gene -- I suppose I won't have to go out and buy Legos or jacks). Wonder what else there is around here to break . . .