My wife had just switched from windows to the latest Mint (Cinnamon). The one thing she misses from windows is the mouse pointer. It animates so that it’s light coloured on dark objects and dark on light objects. It makes it easy for her to find.
Anyone know how to do this in Cinnamon?
In KDE if you furiously move the mouse pointer in frustration, as one would when they can’t find it, the pointer will grow in size. Brighter minds than mine might be able to port that into Cinnamon.
That sounds like an XOR pointer, which did used to be a standard feature in Windows. There were patents on it and xorg were threatened with legal action by the patent holder, so I don’t think it was ever added to X. Those patents have probably expired now, so it may be possible to do.
https://github.com/jinliu/kwin-effect-xorcursor
Kwin won’t load C++ plugins from your home directory, so you have to install it to /usr
Yes, this is also the only implementation of this I could find. I’m not sure if the cinnamon js api is capable of something similar.
This sounds cool but the wife in question uses Cinnamon.
Yeah, unfortunately there’s no inverse mouse cursor theme. I loved it on windows as well. What I’m using now is this “Hackneyed high contrast cursors” theme, the green one to be specific, and I absolutely love it.
Example.
I don’t actually know, but I assume mouse themes are universal? Or does KDE mouse themes now work with Cinnamon?
In KDE Plasma there's also a setting where you can shake your cursor to make it bigger, although I don't feel like I need it.
I read that there’s an extension for Cinnamon that does the same, although I also saw a bug report that it might be broken, idk. Worth a shot. Here’s how to enable it.
I dunno about that exact cursor but you can have a look here to see if any catch their eye.
