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.
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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
Join WWD for a Short Tutorial on How to Change the Look of Your Cursor on a Mac.Mousecape: https://github.com/alexzielenski/Mousecape/releases/download/0.0. Typically, there are two ways you can change your mouse cursor: you can change the Mac's cursor size and its color. Changing the size of your mouse cursor is easy and fairly fast, with no other apps required. But you will need a special app if you want to change the color of your cursor. Let's learn more about these two options. You can change the cursor icon in your mac system manually. Download icons in all formats or edit them for your designs. Create and delete them Choose between a number of built-in chart cursors or request a custom new one whenever youIts a yellow and black cursor set inspired in radioactivity. I like the cursor set myself. Novels, Patterns, and More. Skip to content. Crochet Patterns. Beaded Necklace Pouches.
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.
Mac Change Cursor Icon
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
Mac Os Change Mouse Cursor
- 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.
Change Cursor Color On Mac
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
Join WWD for a Short Tutorial on How to Change the Look of Your Cursor on a Mac.Mousecape: https://github.com/alexzielenski/Mousecape/releases/download/0.0. Typically, there are two ways you can change your mouse cursor: you can change the Mac's cursor size and its color. Changing the size of your mouse cursor is easy and fairly fast, with no other apps required. But you will need a special app if you want to change the color of your cursor. Let's learn more about these two options. You can change the cursor icon in your mac system manually. Download icons in all formats or edit them for your designs. Create and delete them Choose between a number of built-in chart cursors or request a custom new one whenever youIts a yellow and black cursor set inspired in radioactivity. I like the cursor set myself. Novels, Patterns, and More. Skip to content. Crochet Patterns. Beaded Necklace Pouches.
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.
Mac Change Cursor Icon
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
Mac Os Change Mouse Cursor
- 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.
Change Cursor Color On Mac
Ref:
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Terminal User Guide
Change Cursor Size Mac
The point where text is inserted in a Terminal window is indicated by a cursor. You can customize the color and style of the cursor.
In the Terminal app on your Mac, choose Terminal > Preferences, then click Profiles.
In the Profiles list, select a profile.
Click Text.
Under Cursor, select a cursor style.
If you want the cursor to flash, select 'Blink cursor.'
To change the color of the cursor, click the cursor color well, then select a color.
