On Thursday 01 of June 2017 06:36:30 Lisi Reisz wrote:
> I have downloaded the Debian package big-cursor (I have sadly given up
> on comixcursors for now - I'll try again in Stretch).  It is definitely
> there:
>
> brian@Linux:/usr/share/fonts/X11/misc$ locate big-cursor
> /usr/share/doc/big-cursor
> /usr/share/doc/big-cursor/README.Debian
> /usr/share/doc/big-cursor/changelog.gz
> /usr/share/doc/big-cursor/copyright
> /usr/share/fonts/X11/misc/big-cursor.pcf.gz
> /var/cache/apt/archives/big-cursor_3.9_all.deb
> /var/lib/dpkg/info/big-cursor.list
> /var/lib/dpkg/info/big-cursor.md5sums
> /var/lib/dpkg/info/big-cursor.postinst
> /var/lib/dpkg/info/big-cursor.postrm
> /var/lib/dpkg/info/big-cursor.preinst
> brian@Linux:/usr/share/fonts/X11/misc$
>
> But I cannot find a way of persuading Trinity Control Centre mouse
> themes to see it.
>
> Any suggestions?  Or any other suggestions as to how I can get a large,
> preferably red, cursor (but any large one will do) in Debian 8 and
> Trinity 14?
>
> Thanks.
> Lisi
>

You can install some package with "cursor theme" - for example 
crystalcursors, comixcursors-righthanded, xcursor-themes,...

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Slávek