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From: mmm@cetia1.cetia.fr (Mark Martin)
Newsgroups: comp.windows.x
Subject: Re: Large cursors
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Date: 13 Sep 90 11:52:47 GMT
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In article <14758@venera.isi.edu> rosenblo@ISI.EDU (Paul Rosenbloom) writes:
> (1) does anyone have a larger cursor font that I could ftp over 
> (2) does anyone know how to convince XTerm ... to use a custom cursor? 

With more and more pixels to the inch these days, perhaps an R5 wish
could be a redesigned font targetted on 32x32 or even 64x64 pixels?
I regularly use a 64x64 cursor without noticeable degradation in X.

If you have access to the cursor font in bdf format
(fonts/bdf/misc/cursor.bdf in the MIT source tree)
you can use the enclosed filter to double up the size of the font.
Put the resulting file in a directory, run bdftosnf (if you have it)
on the file, run mkfontdir in the directory, and add the directory to your
font search path, eg with xset +fp.
(Whilst testing note the use of xset fp rehash).
I can't offer to ftp you the cursor.bdf file. sorry.
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#! /bin/sh
# This is a shell archive, meaning:
# 1. Remove everything above the #! /bin/sh line.
# 2. Save the resulting text in a file.
# 3. Execute the file with /bin/sh (not csh) to create the files:
#	doublebdffont
# This archive created: Thu Sep 13 13:34:06 FDT 1990
# By: mmm
# Part 1 of 1
PATH=/bin:$PATH export PATH
if test -f 'doublebdffont'
then	echo "shar: will not overwrite existing file doublebdffont"
else	echo "shar: extracting doublebdffont (806 chars)"
	sed 's/^X//' <<\END-OF-FILE! >'doublebdffont'
X: double the size of a bdf font on stdin. mmm
Xawk '
XBEGIN	{
X	s = 2
X	e["0"] = "00"
X	e["1"] = "03"
X	e["2"] = "0c"
X	e["3"] = "0f"
X	e["4"] = "30"
X	e["5"] = "33"
X	e["6"] = "3c"
X	e["7"] = "3f"
X	e["8"] = "c0"
X	e["9"] = "c3"
X	e["a"] = "cc"
X	e["b"] = "cf"
X	e["c"] = "f0"
X	e["d"] = "f3"
X	e["e"] = "fc"
X	e["f"] = "ff"
X	e["A"] = "cc"
X	e["B"] = "cf"
X	e["C"] = "f0"
X	e["D"] = "f3"
X	e["E"] = "fc"
X	e["F"] = "ff"
X	}
XNR==2	{ print "COMMENT was automatically scaled by 2" }
X/^FONTBOUNDINGBOX/||/^FONT_ASCENT/||/^FONT_DESCENT/||/^SWIDTH/||/^DWIDTH/||/^BBX/ {
X	printf "%s",$1
X	for(i=2;i<=NF;i++)printf " %d",$i*s
X	printf "\n"
X	next
X	}
X/^BITMAP/,/^ENDCHAR/{
X	if($1=="BITMAP" || $1=="ENDCHAR"){ print; next }
X	cc = ""
X	for(i=1;i<=length($1);i++){
X		c = substr($1,i,1)
X		cc = cc e[c]
X	}
X	print cc
X	print cc
X	next
X	}
X	{ print }
X'
END-OF-FILE!
	chmod +x doublebdffont
	if test 806 -ne "`wc -c <'doublebdffont'`"
	then	echo "shar: error transmitting doublebdffont (806 characters)"
	fi
fi
echo 'end of shar part 1 of 1'
exit 0