On Thursday 01 June 2017 09:05:16 Dr. Nikolaus Klepp wrote: > Hi Lisi! > > Am Donnerstag, 1. Juni 2017 schrieb Lisi Reisz: > > 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? > > The "big-cursor"-package does not work out of the box (any more), I'm > afraid. > > Please install "xcursor-themes" and this line to your ~/.Xresources: > > Xcursor.size: 48 > > When you restart TDE, the ~/.Xresources are usually loaded automaticly. > > When you restart TDE, all good X11 apps have a 48 pixel cursor. That > implies, all GNOME and GTK based stuff does not! So let's try to fix GNOME > ingenuity: > > Install "dconf-cli" and "lxappearance", set the cursor size for GTK3 apps > (you could also edit ~/.config/gtk-3.0/settings.ini my hand): > > $ dconf write /org/gnome/desktop/interface/cursor-size 48 > > this will not fix things like terminator/firefox/..., some apps like zim > will partly work. Let's fix some GTK2 stuff: > > $ lxappearance > > Select whatever you like, but you cannot set the cursor size there. This > has to be done manually: > > $ kate ~/.gtkrc-2.0 > > Edit the line with gtk-cursor-theme-size: > > gtk-cursor-theme-size=48 > > Now you know why I hate GNOMEs so much ... Anyway, restart TDE and > everything should use 48 pixel cursor. Wonderful! I edited .Xresources (or rather, created it) with 48 and we are almost home and dry. I haven't bothered with the gnome stuff for this particular application, since I don't think he will be using any (I'll cross that bridge if I have to do so!) but I may use it for myself. ;-) Thank you very much, Nik. I assume that if that is still not big enough for him, I can use, say, 72? Lisi