size of mouse pointer

[Alexander Kellett]

hiya,

in 3.1 at least, kmenu->preferences->peripherals->general->large cursor.
also, later version of xfree (and/or redhat) and kde will allow
the user of even larger cursors.

hope that helps.

btw, nice to see your use of kde,
Alex

On Fri, Jan 24, 2003 at 01:17:05PM +0000, Wolf-Dieter Klotz wrote:
> Hi
> 
> We are using RedHat 7.x as OS for our consoles in the accelerator 
> control system for the
> Oak Ridge Spallation Neutron Source (http://www.sns.gov/). Typically one 
> console (we have in total 7 of them) is equipped with three large 
> display screens on which one workspace is split up with a special 
> hardware. On these large screen surfaces we have a problem of finding 
> the mouse cursor (because it is too small) with tyred eyes. That happens 
> especially in the early morning after a long night shift. I have tried 
> to replace the cursor bitmap, which is the standard 16x16 icon, with a 
> 32x32 bitmap icon with the command "xsetroot -curor big-curor 
> big-cursor-mask". On Gnome, WindowMaker and good old Motif mwm that 
> works very well. But on KDE this does not work!! The cursor stays small!!
> What has to be done to increase the cursor on KDE ???
> 
> Hope to find an expert that knows the answer ...
> 
> -- 
> Wolf-Dieter Klotz
> SNS Project, 701 Scarboro Rd.
> Oak Ridge, TN 37830, USA
> tel: +1(865)576-1729
> fax: +1(865)241-6739

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