From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 20562 invoked by alias); 7 Jun 2011 05:48:28 -0000 Received: (qmail 20552 invoked by uid 22791); 7 Jun 2011 05:48:28 -0000 X-SWARE-Spam-Status: No, hits=-1.2 required=5.0 tests=AWL,BAYES_50,DKIM_SIGNED,DKIM_VALID,DKIM_VALID_AU,FREEMAIL_FROM,RCVD_IN_DNSWL_LOW,RFC_ABUSE_POST,T_TO_NO_BRKTS_FREEMAIL X-Spam-Check-By: sourceware.org Received: from mail-qw0-f43.google.com (HELO mail-qw0-f43.google.com) (209.85.216.43) by sourceware.org (qpsmtpd/0.43rc1) with ESMTP; Tue, 07 Jun 2011 05:48:12 +0000 Received: by qwf6 with SMTP id 6so2565354qwf.2 for ; Mon, 06 Jun 2011 22:48:11 -0700 (PDT) MIME-Version: 1.0 Received: by 10.229.65.218 with SMTP id k26mr4121800qci.270.1307425691483; Mon, 06 Jun 2011 22:48:11 -0700 (PDT) Received: by 10.229.224.202 with HTTP; Mon, 6 Jun 2011 22:48:11 -0700 (PDT) In-Reply-To: References: Date: Tue, 07 Jun 2011 05:48:00 -0000 Message-ID: Subject: Re: mintty and mouse cursor From: Andy Koppe To: cygwin@cygwin.com Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 X-IsSubscribed: yes Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help@cygwin.com; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk List-Id: List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: cygwin-owner@cygwin.com Mail-Followup-To: cygwin@cygwin.com X-SW-Source: 2011-06/txt/msg00063.txt.bz2 On 2 June 2011 04:07, Andrew DeFaria wrote: > On 06/01/11 11:28, Andy Koppe wrote: >> On 1 June 2011 16:50, Andrew DeFaria wrote: >>> >>> Is there any way to set the mouse pointer in mintty to be more noticeable >>> than the skinny I beam cursor in a non-contracting color? Can I set the >>> color of the I beam or use another cursor shape like an arrow or >>> something? >> >> Mintty uses the system's "Text Select" cursor, as also used for >> example in text editors. This can be changed on the 'Pointers' tab of >> the 'Mouse' control panel. Various different shapes and sizes are >> available there. > > Cool, I'll have to check that out. Still seems like it should be > independently configurable. GNOME Terminal and KDE Konsole use the same approach of relying on a desktop-wide setting, hence I think that's appropriate for the "Windows Desktop Environment" terminal too. Any excuse to avoid yet another option. ;) Andy -- Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/ Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple