Hi all,
I've used linux on my desktop in the past with great joy and I would like to start
using it again, but I'm running into some accessibility problems. I'm visually
impaired, and I need some aids to use a computer. The two things that I absolutely depend
on are the ability to invert screen colors (black becomes white and vice versa) and some
way to make the mouse cursor more visible.
I currently use Mac OS, which has a builtin option to invert screen colors, and I use a
third party application called Pin Point to draw a blue circle around the mouse pointer.
As far as I can tell Gnome 3 does not have a builtin option to invert screen colors, I
have solved this in the past by just using Gnome 2 with Compiz, which has a plugin to
invert the colors. Also KDE has this feature, so it should be no problem to get this
working properly.
However, I cannot find a way to make the cursor more visible. I tried to write a little c
program that can draw a circle around the cursor but I can't get it to properly work.
On OS X my mouse looks like this [1], the cursor would be inside the blue circle, but is
not visible in the screenshot.
Anyway, I'm looking for suggestions to solve this problem so I can use Linux on my
desktop once again.
[1]:
https://www.dropbox.com/s/65bgyl7wx501szk/Screen%20Shot%202016-05-19%20at...