<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 3.2 Final//EN"> <HTML> <HEAD> <META NAME="GENERATOR" CONTENT="SGML-Tools 1.0.9"> <TITLE>X11-big-cursor MINIHOWTO: Introduction</TITLE> <LINK HREF="X-Big-Cursor-2.html" REL=next> <LINK HREF="X-Big-Cursor.html#toc1" REL=contents> </HEAD> <BODY> <A HREF="X-Big-Cursor-2.html">Next</A> Previous <A HREF="X-Big-Cursor.html#toc1">Contents</A> <HR> <H2><A NAME="top"></A> <A NAME="s1">1. Introduction</A></H2> <P>There are several reasons why the standard X mouse cursors are hard to track for some people: <UL> <LI> when running X on a notebook with low contrast LCD</LI> <LI> on normal screens when using high resolution, 1600x1280 e. g.</LI> <LI> for visually impaired persons even on normal hardware</LI> </UL> <P>In all cases it might help to use enlarged mouse cursors. Ideally this job should be done by a single X program that automatically enlarges every mouse cursor. <P>To my knowledge there is no simple way to write a utility like this, because the X protocol has no provision to query mouse cursors. For more details see section <A HREF="X-Big-Cursor-5.html#tech">Technical discussion</A> below. <P>If we aim for a less general goal, though, something can be done: <P>There is a set of standard mouse cursors that can be found in the cursor font (try <CODE>xfd -fn cursor</CODE> to look at it). Most programs use these mouse cursors and the key idea is to replace the standard cursor font with an enlarged version. <P> <HR> <A HREF="X-Big-Cursor-2.html">Next</A> Previous <A HREF="X-Big-Cursor.html#toc1">Contents</A> </BODY> </HTML>
