My antiquated eyeballs have lots of trouble finding the mouse cursor, especially when it turns itself into a very thin line, as it often does in Pan and in gnome-terminal.
The eyeballs on the panels help some, especially if I manage to center them. But CentOS 6 has a better way. If I choose the oxygen theme, I can get a big fat yellow arrow. (It also turns into a line sometimes, but even then, it's much bigger, and still yellow.
Would somebody who knows how please make this available in Fedora, or write a pons asinorum for it? When you get seriously old, you'll be glad you did.
On 07/05/2012 02:24 PM, Beartooth wrote:
Would somebody who knows how please make this available in Fedora, or write a pons asinorum for it? When you get seriously old, you'll be glad you did.
Gnome 2 had something built in that would show you where the cursor was when you tapped the control key. At one time, it turned the cursor into a big blue ball for a moment, at another, into a large, spinning square. If Gnome 3 doesn't already have this, it shouldn't be too hard for somebody to find the code for it and make a plugin out of it. And, if they do, I'd appreciate getting it ported to Xfce, as I'd like to have it again.
On Thu, Jul 5, 2012 at 11:49 PM, Joe Zeff joe@zeff.us wrote:
On 07/05/2012 02:24 PM, Beartooth wrote:
Would somebody who knows how please make this available in
Fedora, or write a pons asinorum for it? When you get seriously old, you'll be glad you did.
Gnome 2 had something built in that would show you where the cursor was when you tapped the control key. At one time, it turned the cursor into a big blue ball for a moment, at another, into a large, spinning square. If Gnome 3 doesn't already have this, it shouldn't be too hard for somebody to find the code for it and make a plugin out of it. And, if they do, I'd appreciate getting it ported to Xfce, as I'd like to have it again.
It is possible. Go to Settings -> Mouse and Touchpad. Under the tab Mouse, select "show position of the cursor when the Control key is pressed". After this, you can get the location of the cursor (with a nice animation) by just pressing CTRL.
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On 07/05/2012 02:59 PM, Christopher Svanefalk wrote:
It is possible. Go to Settings -> Mouse and Touchpad. Under the tab Mouse, select "show position of the cursor when the Control key is pressed". After this, you can get the location of the cursor (with a nice animation) by just pressing CTRL.
Good. Now, if only somebody'd port that to Xfce, I could make use of it again.
On Thu, 2012-07-05 at 17:24 -0400, Beartooth wrote:
My antiquated eyeballs have lots of trouble finding the mouse cursor, especially when it turns itself into a very thin line, as it often does in Pan and in gnome-terminal.
The eyeballs on the panels help some, especially if I manage to center them. But CentOS 6 has a better way. If I choose the oxygen theme, I can get a big fat yellow arrow. (It also turns into a line sometimes, but even then, it's much bigger, and still yellow.
Would somebody who knows how please make this available in Fedora, or write a pons asinorum for it? When you get seriously old, you'll be glad you did.
In GNOME, at least, there is a mouse setting that will highlight the cursor with an animation when you press and release the control key. That might help a bit.
On Thu, 05 Jul 2012 23:59:25 +0200, Christopher Svanefalk wrote:
On Thu, Jul 5, 2012 at 11:49 PM, Joe Zeff joe@zeff.us wrote:
On 07/05/2012 02:24 PM, Beartooth wrote:
Would somebody who knows how please make this available in
Fedora, or write a pons asinorum for it? When you get seriously old, you'll be glad you did.
Gnome 2 had something built in that would show you where the cursor was when you tapped the control key. At one time, it turned the cursor into a big blue ball for a moment, at another, into a large, spinning square.
Yes, and I used it. I always set it when I find it, but it seems to move -- and I'm pretty sure it's missing from xfce.
If Gnome 3 doesn't already have this, it shouldn't be too hard for somebody to find the code for it and make a plugin out of it. And, if they do, I'd appreciate getting it ported to Xfce, as I'd like to have it again.
It is possible. Go to Settings -> Mouse and Touchpad. Under the tab Mouse, select "show position of the cursor when the Control key is pressed". After this, you can get the location of the cursor (with a nice animation) by just pressing CTRL.
I went there and tried that, but found no such option under xfce. I'll look when I'm next on a Gnome3 machine.
But even the control key function *and* a pair of eyes on each of two panels, together, are still more distracting and less convenient than a good big mouse cursor, especially a colored one.
On Fri, 2012-07-06 at 20:33 +0000, Beartooth wrote:
But even the control key function *and* a pair of eyes on each of two panels, together, are still more distracting and less convenient than a good big mouse cursor, especially a colored one.
Yes, at times I've lost my mouse, and found it very hard to find again. Made all the more worse for Fedora's propensity for sending the mouse running off wildly in some random direction if anything lightly touched the mouse. Yes, it's done this since Red Hat Linux days, on several completely different computers and mice (USB mice seem the less likely to do it), and I'm not the only one to have brought this up.
Like you, I've found a larger pointer and coloured one helpful, not that I've found a way to do that on Linux. And the "show the mouse location with an animation when I hit the control key," hasn't always been too helpful, as the animation is tiny. At times I'd prefer another method of mouse pointer location - selectable full screen cross hairs that went completely from edge to edge. Quite apart from making it easy to find a lost mouse pointer, it'd help an awful lot when it comes to placing things in the right place on the page for desk top publishing and graphics work, when you want to align one thing against something else that it's nowhere near (objects on the page, or rulers along the edge of the window).
On 07/07/2012 09:54 AM, Tim wrote:
On Fri, 2012-07-06 at 20:33 +0000, Beartooth wrote:
But even the control key function *and* a pair of eyes on each of two panels, together, are still more distracting and less convenient than a good big mouse cursor, especially a colored one.
Yes, at times I've lost my mouse, and found it very hard to find again. Made all the more worse for Fedora's propensity for sending the mouse running off wildly in some random direction if anything lightly touched the mouse. Yes, it's done this since Red Hat Linux days, on several completely different computers and mice (USB mice seem the less likely to do it), and I'm not the only one to have brought this up.
I've not had any problems with mice in a long time. I think the last time was on RHELv4 when using the nVidia drivers. I found that using xinput and futzing with the "Device Accel" properties fixed things for me. YMMV.
I've not had much problem with finding a cursor. I use KDE and stick with a pretty basic theme where most of the background contrasts greatly with the cursor. I also use a cursor theme that is larger than the default.
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On 07/06/2012 08:54 PM, Tim wrote:
On Fri, 2012-07-06 at 20:33 +0000, Beartooth wrote:
But even the control key function *and* a pair of eyes on each of two panels, together, are still more distracting and less convenient than a good big mouse cursor, especially a colored one.
Yes, at times I've lost my mouse, and found it very hard to find
again.
Made all the more worse for Fedora's propensity for sending the mouse running off wildly in some random direction if anything lightly
touched
the mouse. Yes, it's done this since Red Hat Linux days, on several completely different computers and mice (USB mice seem the less likely to do it), and I'm not the only one to have brought this up.
Like you, I've found a larger pointer and coloured one helpful,
not that
I've found a way to do that on Linux. And the "show the mouse location with an animation when I hit the control key," hasn't always been too helpful, as the animation is tiny. At times I'd prefer another method of mouse pointer location - selectable full screen cross hairs
that went
completely from edge to edge. Quite apart from making it easy to
find a
lost mouse pointer, it'd help an awful lot when it comes to placing things in the right place on the page for desk top publishing and graphics work, when you want to align one thing against something else that it's nowhere near (objects on the page, or rulers along the
edge of
the window).
Under Gnome, if you open Advanced Settings --> Theme --> Cursor theme you can select different cursor themes including different colors and sizes. The only hard part is that you do not get a preview.
Mikkel - -- Do not meddle in the affairs of dragons, for thou art crunchy and taste good with Ketchup!
On 07/07/2012 05:08 PM, Mikkel L. Ellertson wrote:
Under Gnome, if you open Advanced Settings --> Theme --> Cursor theme you can select different cursor themes including different colors and sizes. The only hard part is that you do not get a preview.
Interesting. Under Xfce, when you go to Settings->Mouse->Theme, you not only get to set the size of the cursor you get a preview of all the various shapes. Except, that is, for the Default, which doesn't show you a preview. Just to be thorough, would somebody using KDE tell us what you get there?
On 07/08/2012 09:23 AM, Joe Zeff wrote:
On 07/07/2012 05:08 PM, Mikkel L. Ellertson wrote:
Under Gnome, if you open Advanced Settings --> Theme --> Cursor theme you can select different cursor themes including different colors and sizes. The only hard part is that you do not get a preview.
Interesting. Under Xfce, when you go to Settings->Mouse->Theme, you not only get to set the size of the cursor you get a preview of all the various shapes. Except, that is, for the Default, which doesn't show you a preview. Just to be thorough, would somebody using KDE tell us what you get there?
You get previews for all installed cursor theme, including "default". You get size selections only if available in the cursor theme.
On Sat, 07 Jul 2012 19:08:13 -0500, Mikkel L. Ellertson wrote:
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Under Gnome, if you open Advanced Settings --> Theme --> Cursor theme you can select different cursor themes including different colors and sizes. The only hard part is that you do not get a preview.
Well, I went to the machine actually running Gnome 3 -- and couldn't find Advanced Settings ... :-{
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On 07/08/2012 04:09 PM, Beartooth wrote:
On Sat, 07 Jul 2012 19:08:13 -0500, Mikkel L. Ellertson wrote:
[....]
Under Gnome, if you open Advanced Settings --> Theme --> Cursor theme you can select different cursor themes including different colors and sizes. The only hard part is that you do not get a preview.
Well, I went to the machine actually running Gnome 3 -- and couldn't find Advanced Settings ... :-{
Make sure you have gnome-tweak-tool installed. You will then find it under accessories in the application menu. It is one of those packages that I always install, and do not think about. (Midnight Commander is another one.)
Mikkel - -- Do not meddle in the affairs of dragons, for thou art crunchy and taste good with Ketchup!