Allegedly, on or about 06 April 2013, Beartooth sent:
I need cursor symbols that my antiquated eyeballs can spot
even through trifocals. Last time I had a machine running CentOS (6.2 iirc) I had managed to get a big yellow arrow to show the mouse cursor. It was wonderful.
Now I have machines running Fedora (17 & 18) and Puppy (5.0) -
and even with eyes on two panels I have an awful time spotting the mouse cursor. Can anyone tell me a way to get my arrow back??
I sympathise with you. Even with good eyesight, the mouse pointers disappear all too easily, and the special effect to reveal the position of the cursor when the control key is tapped isn't obvious enough, nor does it solve the problem of the pointer being too small all of the time, for some circumstances. I think it's about time that the mouse preferences gave some adjustable scaling control over the pointer size, so we don't have to mess around with themes to change the size of the pointer.
While on the theme, I wish programs that deal with precise alignment of things, but using the mouse, should have a function that extends crosshairs from the mouse focus point along to the rulers that the programs have along the edge of the window. But it's not just the rulers that are points of interest to users, sometimes you're aligning one object against others on the page.