Extra functionaly for the curser (show position, color, size)

mabra · 2017-08-30 11:42:21

Hi All!

Most of my workspaces are completely filled with terminals.
And I do not find my cursor - my screen is 30" with 2560 resolution.

Changing the theme under mouse does not offer an alternative.
I can change the theme and make the cursor a little larger.

What would help:
- show a circle around the corsor, if <ctrl> is pressed on the keyboard
- dont switch into another style over terminals (from pointer to cursor(!??))
- make it RED.

Any thoughts?

Thanks anyway,
Manfred

MountainDewManiac · 2017-08-30 20:36:44

I'd think you could change the mouse cursor theme and make it red that way.

This doesn't highlight your mouse cursor per se, but if you cannot find it, press Alt-F1 - the menu will pop up in such a location that your mouse cursor is at one of its corners. Then you can press Escape to remove the menu.

I just had a look at Xfce's Mouse and Touchpad settings GUI and didn't see any option for causing the mouse to become highlighted in some way when a key such as Ctrl is pressed. Which is somewhat sad, since even Microsoft's desktops have had this feature for years roll - but perhaps I merely looked in the wrong place? Have you tried looking in {menu}/Settings/Accessibility for such an option? I just did, but the user must check a box to enable that option set, then log out and back in in order to even see them (for whatever strange and unusual reason, they do not even appear as a grayed-out list before the set is enabled).

Regards,
MDM

ozjd · 2017-08-30 22:22:57

You don't say if it is Xfce terminals you are using but I'm guessing it is. In the recent versions there is an option in Preferences - Advanced - to auto-hide the mouse pointer. If that is selected there won't be visible mouse pointer.

mabra · 2017-08-31 05:25:50

Hi !

Thanks for your reply!

MountainDewManiac wrote:

I'd think you could change the mouse cursor theme and make it red that way.

I already tried this, but there is no way, to make the cursor/pointer red. I have two themes and both are black and white.

MountainDewManiac wrote:

This doesn't highlight your mouse cursor per se, but if you cannot find it, press Alt-F1 - the menu will pop up in such a location that your mouse cursor is at one of its corners. Then you can press Escape to remove the menu.

Thanks. Bad solution [no affront in mind], but if there is nothing better - really good idea!

MountainDewManiac wrote:

Have you tried looking in {menu}/Settings/Accessibility for such an option? I just did, but the user must check a box to enable that option set, then log out and back in in order to even see them (for whatever strange and unusual reason, they do not even appear as a grayed-out list before the set is enabled).

Ok, will try this. I know this dialog, clicked it once upon a time, to see what happens.
It just enabled some checkboxes, which gave me nothing.
Although it could be seen as a plus, that the pointer changes to a cursor over terminals,
a pointer (instead of the cursor) would not be really nice, but solve the problem.

Will look after next logout - but this may be some weeks later ...

Regards,
Manfred

mabra · 2017-08-31 05:38:06

Hi !

Thanks for your reply!

ozjd wrote:

You don't say if it is Xfce terminals you are using but I'm guessing it is. In the recent versions there is an option in Preferences - Advanced - to auto-hide the mouse pointer. If that is selected there won't be visible mouse pointer.

I am using a mixture, mostly KDEs konsole, but both behave the same.
I never saw, what you mentioned, and looked again. Its not there.
That brought me to the idea, to have a deeper look into the konsole.
The same there, can change the cursor, but not the mousepointer.
I am using debian jessie with xfce 4.10.1.
This box is about to reinstall with Stretch, which has xfce 4.12.3.
But currently, I dont have it.

In my original post, I was not tooo clear about cursor and mousepointer.
I always meant the mousepointer.

Thanks anyway,

Manfred

MountainDewManiac · 2017-08-31 16:48:17

mabra wrote:

MountainDewManiac wrote:
I'd think you could change the mouse cursor theme and make it red that way.
I already tried this, but there is no way, to make the cursor/pointer red. I have two themes and both are black and white.

Oh, have the developers removed that functionality? This appears to be a "red mouse cursor theme," but from the dates of the comments, it's a number of years old:

https://www.xfce-look.org/p/999695/

And this seems to give the general location if the user wishes to change colors him/herself:

https://forum.manjaro.org/t/how-to-customize-color-for-mouse-pointer-for-xfce/22308

Regards,
MDM

sid1950 · 2019-01-17 11:46:29

I have Ubuntu Studio 18.10 with XFCE 4.12.4. I found this:

Open Setting Manager > Keyboard > Application Shortcuts

Click Add at the bottom

Enter: xfce4-find-cursor and click OK 9 NOT Open!)

Then press whatever key combination you need. I use CTRL + ALT GR (Right Alt key) as I never use that for anything.

You get expanding Red circles with this. My Style (I assume that is what they now call Themes!) is NumixBlue.

hikmateustad · 2021-04-03 05:42:47

Well I found a way to highlight the cursor on XFCE. Steps are very simple and I even made video tutorial on how to do it which can be found at

https://youtu.be/a24OpPCl0Q0

Hope it helps anyone who comes here searching

mint4all · 2021-04-03 15:18:26

mabra wrote:

Hi All...
What would help:
- show a circle around the corsor, if <ctrl> is pressed on the keyboard
- dont switch into another style over terminals (from pointer to cursor(!??))
- make it RED.
...
Any thoughts?

Greetings to you, Manfred! Have you looked at xfce's "Accessibility" options for your mouse-cursor? (Settings Manager > System Section > Accessibility > Mouse tab > "Show location of pointer on keypress"?) For some of my users with poor vision, that option was the best alternative to help them out ...

Note: Used and tested on Mint 19 and 20, both distros running xfce 4.12.x

Just a thought.
Cheers. m4a

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#1 2017-08-30 11:42:21

Extra functionaly for the curser (show position, color, size)

#2 2017-08-30 20:36:44

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#3 2017-08-30 22:22:57

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#4 2017-08-31 05:25:50

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#5 2017-08-31 05:38:06

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#8 2021-04-03 05:42:47

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