It replaces the conventional cursor with a larger, circular cursor that can be made even larger for users who have less motor control. The magnifier runs on Windows-based computer systems. The UWs AIM Research Group, which invented the Pointing Magnifier, learned that users can much more easily acquire targets, even small ones, 23 percent faster with the Pointing Magnifier. The Pointing Magnifier combines an area cursor with visual and motor magnification, reducing need for fine, precise pointing. The researchers hope that in exchange for the software, users offer feedback. And neither requires additional computer hardware – just some free, downloadable software. So it often goes for computer users whose motor disabilities prevent them from easily using a mouse.Īs the population ages, more people are having trouble with motor control, but a University of Washington team has invented two mouse cursors that make clicking targets a whole lot easier. The hand tries a third time – and the cursor loops farther from the target than where it started. To test changes, $ xrdb ~/.Xresources it, close and open terminal again to see effects.The Pointing Magnifier University of Washington How to change stuff is documented in the linked article. If you want to experiment a little bit with X resources, I recommend you installing Urxvt terminal, which is a very good terminal itself and gets its configuration from the X resources. You can find more info about X resources and settings in the Glorious Arch Wiki page.
(Or if it doesn't change for the desktop, try restarting X.)
Note, that not all apps may apply these changes immediately, so you need to restart these apps. (Lines beginning with an ! are comments.)Īfter that, you need to load this configuration by typing. For example setting your cursor: !Xcursor.theme: cursor-theme
You can create a ~/.Xresources file and inser settings regarding those apps. There are some other apps that don't read this and need to be configured. It seems like you have different cursor configurations for your Desktop Environment (Xfce) and your X server (in this setup: your desktop).Īs Xfce relies on GTK, it'll store it's settings to the GTK settings.
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