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From: rosenblo@ISI.EDU (Paul Rosenbloom)
Newsgroups: comp.windows.x
Subject: Large cursors
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Date: 29 Aug 90 18:51:24 GMT
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I am a relatively new X user (X11R4 with twm) on a Sun4/280 with a high
resolution screen.  The problem I'm having is that the standard cursors in the
cursor font are much too small for my screen (I waste considerable time
searching for them amid the clutter).  We (ISI) don't seem to have any larger
cursor fonts, so I've tried creating my own (via bitmap).  Though I can fix
the root cursor this way, and the various cursors that twm knows about, I have
been unable to figure out how to change the the cursor used within xterm (and
other) windows -- XTerm*pointerShape appears to only accept the predefined
labels for characters in the cursor font.  So my two-part question is: (1)
does anyone have a larger cursor font that I could ftp over (ours appears to
be about 16x16) and use; or (2) does anyone know how to convince XTerm (and
other applications like gnuemacs) to use a custom cursor?  Thanks. -- Paul
Rosenbloom