Replacing the I-beam cursor system wide.

[Gene Heskett]

On Tuesday, January 18, 2011 05:17:14 pm Thomas Dickey did opine:

> On Tue, 18 Jan 2011, James Cloos wrote:
> >>>>>> "r" == rhubarbpieguy  <rhubarbpieguy at gmail.com> writes:
> > r> Is it possible to replace the I-beam cursor system wide through X?
> > 
> > Sure.  You need to change the (server-side) cursor font used by older
> > applications and also change the cursor theme used by most newer apps.
> > 
> > Google should point to decent explanations of how to do those.
> > 
> > You probably want to start by editing your favourite cursor theme
> > to use something other than a I-beam in that spot (I beleive that
> > cursor's name is 'xterm') and re-generate it.  You may find that
> > to be sufficient for your needs.
> 
> man xterm (resources)
> 
>         pointerMode (class PointerMode)
>                 Specifies when the pointer may be hidden as the user
> types.  It will be redisplayed if the user moves the mouse, or clicks 
> one of its buttons.
> 
>                 0  never
> 
>                 1  the  application  running  in  xterm has not
> activated mouse mode.  This is the default.
> 
>                 2  always.
> 
>         pointerShape (class Cursor)
>                 Specifies the name of the shape of the pointer.  The
> default is "xterm."

That it is, but where is the list and description of the other options so 
that we can make considered choices?

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