Re: large print cursors

["Jason Grieves" <jasongrieves hotmail com>]

> On 5 Dec 2005, at 22:37, Jason Grieves wrote:
>
> > Hello
> >
> > While looking around I am having trouble finding some large print  
> > cursors.  It appears Solaris has these, but are they available for  
> > Linux/Gnome?  Thanks!
>
> Should be, provided you have an X server that supports the X Cursor  
> extension-- they're not specific to Solaris or GNOME. (Actually the  
> Solaris ones aren't implemented as X cursors because Xsun doesn't  support 
> that extension yet, but any recent version of X.org should.)
I haven't seen tihs before.  Could you explain further?


> I run Ubuntu on my Mac laptop and it comes with three or four large  print 
> cursor options.  I haven't really found a good source for  downloadable 
> cursor themes though, there are a few here but I don't  see any large print 
> ones:
In Ubuntu I go to Preferences > Mouse, and there is only the default mouse 
cursor.  Are you changing them in xorg.conf?  Is it possible to make them 
appear in the gui as I saw on some Sun documentation?

> http://www.customize.org/list/xcursors
>
> Of course, it would be cool if the large print themes in gnome-themes  also 
> just installed an equivalent large print cursor theme-- I think  there's a 
> bug open requesting that, so if I have time I'll look into  doing it for 
> 2.14.
>
> Cheeri,
> Calum.
>
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Thanks!

Jason Grieves