Sometimes after writing some code in the terminal, I find it very hard to find my mouse pointer quickly because it is very invisible in the dark background. So I decide to find a good way to solve this problem.
Changing the size of the mouse pointer in Mac OS X 10.8 and beyond looks much more pleasant than before because you no longer end up with a giant pixelated cursor, instead you get a nice and smooth high-DPI rendered version that is appropriate for using larger cursors even on the ultra high resolution Retina displays.
- Today I am showing you how to change your mac cursor from the old boring regular cursor to something that you might like. I haven't seen any tuts on animated.
- Select a color for your cursor under 'Pointer color.' Just click the option you want to use under this heading to change your cursor's color. You can select a: White pointer, which will always be white.
Actually there is not very good post about the mouse pointer in Mac, that is why I write this blog post.
1. Change system mouse cursor size
OSX does not have options for changing the color of the mouse pointer, but you can change the size of if in System Preferences > Accessibility > Display to make the mouse pointer bigger.
2. Add something around the cursor
You can use some 3-party software such as Mouse locator to creates a green crosshair of sorts around the cursor making it easy to identify. I did not test this way but you can try as you like.
3. Change system mouse cursor image
I like github. I found an open source software called Mousecape in github here, which allows the customization of cursors for Mac OS X 10.8-10.10, you can use it to change the cursor of your mac quickly. If you do not want to create the icon by yourself, just use the default cape file in the source. It works great!
5. Why it still looks so bad in some application
After changing the mouse pointer by using Mousecape, I found the cursor looks still bad in iTerm2 app, then I realized that some app such as iTerm2 might use the image of its local file instead of global. Actually I got that somebody have the same problem since the mouse cursor is not invisible in darkground xcode.
Many people like set the iTerm2 background to dark, so if we change the image file used by iTerm2 to show the mouse cursor, then our problem can be fixed. Here we go
- Download this cursor image to your mac
- Enter the directory
/Applications/iTerm.app/Contents/Resources - Rename the IBarCursor.tiff to IBarCursor.tiff.bak, IBarCursorXMR.tiff to IBarCursorXMR.tiff.bak
- Put the downloaded image to this directory and rename it to IBarCursor.png and IBarCursorXMR.png
- Now close iTerm2 and restart it, you can see the mouse in the app is more visible than before.
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“Do you see my mouse?”
These are just a few examples of comments you’ll hear during online meetings with screensharing during this new work-from-home era. While sharing or collaborating on documents during online meetings, it can be hard for people to follow along with the tiny, standard mouse pointer/cursor defaults on our Macs and PCs. We could all do each other a little favor by making the mouse pointer bigger and/or more colorful – a high visibility pointer will help your audience follow along without losing the mouse.
You can easily change your mouse from the default to something more noticeable. Here’s how:
Customize Your Mouse on Windows 10
Search for and click on “Mouse settings” on your computer via the Start button or the Search bar in your taskbar.
- In the Window that follows click on “Adjust mouse & cursor size” in the right-side column.
- The next window will offer options for changing the pointer size and color. Set to your liking!
Customize Your Mouse Pointer Size on a Mac
- Go to System Preferences
- Click Accessibility > Display
- Then click Cursor.
- Drag the slider to increase or decrease the size of the pointer.
How To Change The Cursor On A Mac, Chromebook Or Windows PC
(No options for changing the color of the pointer on Macs, sorry!)