[PLUG] An X Window System Question

[Shannon C. Dealy]

On Mon, 5 Aug 2002, Rich Shepard wrote:

>   I sometimes -- too often, in fact -- lose track of the little arrow cursor
> on my monitor bacause it tends to have too little contrast with the
> background of the desktop or apps running in it. Is there a way to change
> the color of the cursor, say to red with a yellow border?

I solved the problem by going to a larger cursor, using the "X-Big-Cursor"
mini howto (it's included in Debian, probably some other distributions as
well).  If you prefer to go with the color scheme approach rather than the
big cursor approach, reading this howto may be of some help in creating
your own (though I'm not sure about the color handling).

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