Cursor visibility

[Whoosh]

I like to change the background color on working documents to a medium
gray color for less glare and eye fatigue but have found that on some
text/word processing programs I can't see the cursor. I can change the
mouse appearance and that is fine but that cursor vanishes once the gray
gets to a medium darkness which is the nicest color scheme in which to
work (with black text of course.) I wonder if there is any solution to
this? Its a setting within the particular program probably. The latest
program I tried is Jarte, a wonderful, free, Wordpad cousin with lots more
features but shares the same speed as original. Unfortunately that cursor
is invisible with a medium gray background.

 

[dadiOH]

I like to change the background color on working documents to a medium
gray color for less glare and eye fatigue but have found that on some
text/word processing programs I can't see the cursor. I can change
the mouse appearance and that is fine but that cursor vanishes once
the gray gets to a medium darkness which is the nicest color scheme
in which to work (with black text of course.) I wonder if there is
any solution to this?

Change the cursor...
Control Panel
Mouse
Pointers
Browse to Windows\cursors

If there isn't anything there you like download or make one.


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[Elmo]

I like to change the background color on working documents to a medium
gray color for less glare and eye fatigue but have found that on some
text/word processing programs I can't see the cursor. I can change the
mouse appearance and that is fine but that cursor vanishes once the gray
gets to a medium darkness which is the nicest color scheme in which to
work (with black text of course.) I wonder if there is any solution to
this? Its a setting within the particular program probably. The latest
program I tried is Jarte, a wonderful, free, Wordpad cousin with lots
more features but shares the same speed as original. Unfortunately that
cursor is invisible with a medium gray background.

The best pointers colors, I think, are the "Windows Inverted (system
scheme). With that setup, you get a black-on-white pointer,
Orange-on-Blue, etc., where most combinations are quite visible. I
believe the cursor changes its color accordingly, too.

 

[paul0073]

I like to change the background color on working documents to a medium
gray color for less glare and eye fatigue but have found that on some
text/word processing programs I can't see the cursor. I can change the
mouse appearance and that is fine but that cursor vanishes once the gray
gets to a medium darkness which is the nicest color scheme in which to
work (with black text of course.) I wonder if there is any solution to
this? Its a setting within the particular program probably. The latest
program I tried is Jarte, a wonderful, free, Wordpad cousin with lots more
features but shares the same speed as original. Unfortunately that cursor
is invisible with a medium gray background.

Doesn't the "windows inverted system" pointer also inverts the cursor?
It works well for the pointer itself.

I've got the inverted mouse setting but haven't notice/tried to see if
the cursor also get inverted.

 

[thanatoid]

I like to change the background color on working documents
to a medium gray color for less glare and eye fatigue but
have found that on some text/word processing programs I
can't see the cursor. I can change the mouse appearance
and that is fine but that cursor vanishes once the gray
gets to a medium darkness which is the nicest color scheme
in which to work (with black text of course.) I wonder if
there is any solution to this? Its a setting within the
particular program probably. The latest program I tried
is Jarte, a wonderful, free, Wordpad cousin with lots more
features but shares the same speed as original.
Unfortunately that cursor is invisible with a medium gray
background.

How nice to meet someone not trapped by the "I don't /really/
have a computer if I don't have MS Office installed, even though
I will NEVER use 3 of its 5 programs, and barely understand 3%
of the two I DO sometimes use" syndrome.

/ALL/ Windows cursors (and most icons) suck big-time and always
have. The fact the basic arrow is totally asymmetrical and has
been since the beginning and no one has raised hell about it is
baffling to me. Visibility is another problem, and "mouse
trails" or bigger and uglier versions of the same basics are NOT
acceptable solutions.

Years ago I made a large partially-transparent basic-arrow
cursor and also a flashing red-yellow version of same for "busy"
and "working in the background" (I fail to see much user-related
difference between the two). I don't have binaries access now,
but I'd be happy to post them to some file sharing site if you
wish.

I have seen some web sites with "custom cursors" and there are
millions of icons around, but IMHO most are ugly as hell, not to
mention quite bloated.

Two oldies-but-goodies programs to make your own static or
animated cursors are Cursor Dance and Instant Icon & Cursor, and
there are MANY others but they are all way too big for what they
need to do, like Axialis and Microangelo. 3 to 11 MB to make
some icons and cursors? Please.

Anyway, I can post a couple of those programs (free, PC Mag or
something) along with my 2 cursors so you can modify them very
easily if you need to, or just make your own.

Let me know.