Accessibility - Large Cursor in X

Will H. Backman whb at ceimaine.org
Thu Jan 19 14:54:16 UTC 2006


David Hart wrote:
> On Fri, Jan 13, 2006 at 11:49:03AM -0500, Will H. Backman wrote:
> 
>>In the mouse settings under preferences, there is a tab to change the
>>cursor theme.  Are there any cursor themes besides the default?  I'm
>>looking for a large, high-contrast cursor to go along with the
>>gnome-accessibility-themes package (not installed by default).  At this
>>point, I can get a great high-contrast theme with large fonts, but the X
>>cursor is still tiny.  A search of synaptic didn't show any cursor
>>themes packages.
> 
> 
> xcursor-themes (in universe)
> 

Thanks for that tip.  xcursor-themes did add some larger mouse cursors 
the the list in the mouse preferences application.

Any chance of getting this package into the main Ubuntu repositories? 
The large print, high-contrast themes are not as useful without 
something like this.




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