Re: [Usability]Pointer shape in terminals

[Tony Houghton <gnome realh co uk>]

In <y5weladcjjx fsf icon devel redhat com>, Havoc Pennington wrote:

> 
> Tony Houghton <gnome realh co uk> writes: 
> > Am I right in thinking that X provides a number of preset cursor shapes
> > and Gnome currently just uses these - at least for the I-beam? I fancy
> > modifying it for myself until the themes etc get implemented. How would
> > I go about doing this?
> > 
> 
> Essentially you would modify the cursor font. 
> GNOME already contains some modified fonts such as
> prefix/share/gnome/cursor-fonts/cursor-large.pcf
> 
> However I don't know how one edits the pcf file. Maybe google would
> turn something up.

Or freshmeat: http://www.hut.fi/u/pvsavola/decurs.html

I'll give this a try.

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TH * http://www.realh.co.uk