On Thursday 01 June 2017 08:44:55 Slávek Banko wrote:
> 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,...

Thanks, Slávek.

I have installed both comixcursors (virtual package), 
comixcursors-righthanded-opaque, big-cursor and dmz-cursor-theme.  At that 
point I saw no point in installing any more packages with cursor themes.  
comixcursors installs only small cursors in the combination 8 and 14 (cf my 
earlier correspondence on this list with Gene), so as I say I am waiting for 
Stretch.  Meanwhile I was trying to get one of the others going.  Since I 
have located big-cursor it seemed the most likely to succeed.  I know that 
dmz is there - it is in the control center list but will not "work" - but I 
haven't narrowed its location down yet.

I'll try Nik's suggestion.

Lisi