Re: [libreoffice-users] Cursor shape+color

Hi :)
There are a lot of options in
Tools - Options - Appearance
but i don't think the cursor itself is in there.  

One way to play "spot the cursor" is to press the shift key while moving the cursor around as 
"selects" characters (or entire lines if up/down is used rather than just to and fro).  If you use 
Ctrl and shift it selects entire words at a time.  

Also most OSes have "Accessibility" options or even something hidden in mouse-settings that can be 
set to produced moving concentric circles or something homing-in on either the mouse or the cursor. 
 In Gnu&Linux i often add a pair of eyes to the menu-bar / taskbar / panel and they follow my mouse 
around or flick up at the sky if i move to another monitor.  

As Jay says it is worth exploring your OS to see if you can change settings system-wide because i 
don't think LibreOffice has the option internally.

Regards from
Tom :)  





> ________________________________
> From: Jay Lozier <jslozier@gmail.com>
> To: users@global.libreoffice.org 
> Sent: Thursday, 6 September 2012, 13:40
> Subject: Re: [libreoffice-users] Cursor shape+color
>
> On 09/06/2012 05:45 AM, Thomas Blasejewicz wrote:
> > Good evening
> > Probably this is a very stupid question - and not actually a "technical
> > problem":
> >
> > Is it possible to change (customize) the shape and color of the cursor?
> >
> > Currently it is a thin, vertical black line.
> > I can see it blinking when it is within a blanc area of the screen,
> > but when I have the whole screen full of text and move around a little,
> > this thin black line is
> > "dam near impossible to see" - like the golden snitch in the Harry
> > Potter movies.
> >
> > It would be very helpful, if I could change its shape and preferrably
> > also color so something that is easier to find.
> > (I could do that ages ago in WordPerfect (very helpful!), but have no
> > idea whether it is possible in Word)
> >
> > But this is only my personal wishful thinking and everybody else is
> > perfectly happy ...
> >
> > Thank you
> > Thomas
> Hi
>
> You might try checking your OS' available cursors and see if one of them
> has the features you want. This will be a global change affecting all apps.
>
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> Jay Lozier
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