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<TITLE>X11-big-cursor MINIHOWTO: Introduction</TITLE>
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<H2><A NAME="top"></A> <A NAME="s1">1. Introduction</A></H2>
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<P>There are several reasons why the standard X mouse cursors are hard to
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track for some people:
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<UL>
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<LI> when running X on a notebook with low contrast LCD</LI>
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<LI> on normal screens when using high resolution, 1600x1280 e. g.</LI>
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<LI> for visually impaired persons even on normal hardware</LI>
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<P>In all cases it might help to use enlarged mouse cursors. Ideally this
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job should be done by a single X program that automatically enlarges
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every mouse cursor.
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<P>To my knowledge there is no simple way to write a utility like this,
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because the X protocol has no provision to query mouse cursors. For
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more details see section
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<A HREF="X-Big-Cursor-5.html#tech">Technical discussion</A> below.
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<P>If we aim for a less general goal, though, something can be done:
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<P>There is a set of standard mouse cursors that can be found in the
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cursor font (try <CODE>xfd -fn cursor</CODE> to look at it). Most programs use
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these mouse cursors and the key idea is to replace the standard cursor
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font with an enlarged version.
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