From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: (qmail 20022 invoked from network); 26 Jun 1998 02:00:01 -0000 Received: from turing.une.edu.au (129.180.11.17) by mail2.redhat.com with SMTP; 26 Jun 1998 02:00:01 -0000 Received: from euclid.une.edu.au (euclid.une.edu.au [129.180.11.23]) by turing.une.edu.au (8.8.5/8.8.5) with ESMTP id MAA07781 for ; Fri, 26 Jun 1998 12:00:23 +1000 (EST) Received: (from adevenis@localhost) by euclid.une.edu.au (8.8.5/8.8.5) id MAA03814; Fri, 26 Jun 1998 12:00:24 +1000 (EST) Date: Fri, 26 Jun 1998 12:00:23 +1000 (EST) From: Andrew Devenish-Meares To: blinux-list@redhat.com Subject: Re: making xwindows cursor extra large In-Reply-To: Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII List-Id: On Thu, 25 Jun 1998, David Robinson wrote: > Can someone tell me how to make the xwindow's cursor extra large. I'm > legelly blind and still have some sight left. I've looked every where > in xwindows. Thanks. I used to do this: Get an .xbm graphic made of the cursor at a usable size, and also a corresponding mask for the transparent bits of the cursor - black becomes transparent and white is solid if I recall correctly, I might be wrong. (I got a friend to do this for me.) Then I added to my .xsession: xsetroot -cursor .cursor.xbm .cursormsk.xbm where .cursor.xbm was the image of the cursor and .cursormsk.xbm is the mask. If you want I can mail you these to files for you to try with if you like. This worked on our DEC Station X terms at UNE, which are MIPS bassed running Ultrix. -- Andrew 'ADM' Devenish-Meares adevenis@turing.une.edu.au http://mcs.une.edu.au/~adevenis/ adevenis@suburbia.com.au Brain: Are you pondering what I'm pondering? Pinky: Yes, I am!