An X Window System Question

Chuck Mead csm at MoonGroup.com
Tue Aug 6 20:52:26 CEST 2002


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On Tue, 6 Aug 2002, Rich Shepard posted the following:

RS>On Tue, 6 Aug 2002, Chris Fuhrman wrote:
RS>
RS>> Several years ago, when I was taking a Self-Study course in UNIX, the
RS>> Graduate Teaching Assistant who oversaw the class said that one of his
RS>> buddies had a problem trying to find his mouse cursor on a 21" display
RS>> screen.  The solution was to use a program called xeyes (which puts a pair
RS>> of eyes on your screen that follow your mouse).
RS>
RS>  From the local wizards I learned of X-Big-Cursor (located in
RS>/usr/doc/HOWTO/mini/). I've not yet tried implementing it, but it's a start.

Put this line:

xset +fp "/usr/share/xfce/cursors"

in your ~/.xinitrc

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