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I use a small 1080p TV as the monitor for my desktop system, so I
run at 1920x1080 pixels. It's nice, plenty of room on the screen,
except I sometimes "lose" the mouse pointer.
I then jiggle the mouse, trying to see it. I think that many people reading this can relate to the moment of frustration!
Easy and Quirky have 'Pcur', in the 'Desktop' category of the menu,
for selecting a different mouse cursor theme, however, it requires the
'pcur' PET package to be installed. Those themes are installed in
/root/.icons
I want a new default cursor theme, seen at first power-up of
Easy/Quirky. This link explains how to install cursor themes
system-wide:
https://www.xaprb.com/blog/2006/04/24/beautiful-x11-cursors/
...except that the correct path for Xorg is /usr/share/icons, not /usr/share/cursors/xorg-x11.
I have put the 'jaguarx' theme into
rootfs-skeleton/usr/share/icons/jaguarx, with
rootfs-skeleton/usr/share/icons/default setup as explained in the above
link.
jaguarx is not a big mouse pointer, but is more visible than the
original default. A bit of colour too, with a whirling ball when there
is action.