Questions tagged [cursor]
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How to customize X11 font cursor
According to the documentation of XCreateFontCursor:
Applications are encouraged to use this interface for their cursors because the font can be customized for the individual display type.
How do I ...
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two windows use two arrow key
I have an idea, I hope to have two windows side by side on the screen, for example evince on the left and gedit on the right.
I hope that Fn+WASD can move the cursor in evince, and Fn+IJKL can move ...
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QEMU stuck cursor
I am running a MacOS machine on QEMU, and the cursor has remained stuck, and won't respond at all. Also there are two arrows (my Windows cursor and the QEMU cursor). My Windows cursor moves freely, ...
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KDE Plasma Wayland cursor is malfunctioning
This is a fresh install of Kali Linux in a virtual machine following a package update & upgrade. I selected Wayland KDE plasma as my DE when I was setting it up. If this changes anything, my ...
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Linux Mint 21.2 Cinnamon : Suddenly different look after update
I am running Linux Mint Cinnamon on three different machines (and I am still quite new to the Linux world).
On two machines, the most recent update (current 21.2 version as of November 2023) worked ...
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How can my flatpaks inherit gnome themes?
I am having problems with all the Flatpak packages that I install: they don't inherit the themes of cursor and window and use a theme of the windows similar to the predefined one of gnome, and the ...
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"snap" apps in Debian 12 Plasma5 change the cursor
I had to install vlc and cctv-viewer using "snap" in Debian 12, as that OS doesn't support rtsp (real-time streaming protocol). The Plasma themed cursor is fine until it enters the app area, ...
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Colorful cursor to indicate vi mode in zsh, but fail to reset color
I am trying to have cursor color in zsh to indicate normal/insert mode, but once enter normal mode, the color of cursor don't reset to default color in insert mode.
The source are:
# color cursor
zle-...
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How is cursor blinking implemented in GUI terminal emulators?
Blinking is a common practice since the early time of computing, especially for cursors.
However, when I run strace to check their system calls, both a terminal emulator konsole and a shell bash, don'...
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Terminal is losing the blink and is not showing text after using (batcat)
So, I used batcat to syntax highlight a file in the terminal. After I close it through Ctrl + C, my cursor stops blinking and I cant see the text I type in my terminal.
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Programmatically toggle cursor visibility on X server
I have a kiosk system with an X server running, hosting different graphical programs.
All programs are mutually exclusive as their systemd units conflict.
On some of those programs I want to use a ...
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Not able to use cursor theme universally
Using i3wm
Using arch wiki https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/Cursor_themes#XDG_specification
$ ls .local/share/icons/
Bibata-Modern-Ice/
In ~/.icons/default/index.theme
[icon theme]
Inherits=Bibata-...
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How can I move terminal cursor by word?
CentOS zsh terminal, the path just typed or copied is very deep, need to change a word in the middle.
Ctrl-f or Ctrl-b can move cursor by one character.
Is there a way to move cursor by word, like vim?...
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Screen and cursor freeze temporarily
I have a problem with cursor lagging.
I tried reinstalling Linux and even changing distribution but I have still the same problem.
I have it installed on a USB stick and this bug is only on kernel 5....
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Can I point cursor to a character on bash CLI prompt using mouse?
How can I point my cursor to a character on bash CLI prompt using mouse?
Example: user@host:$ grep abcd /tmp/dir1/dir2/dir3/ *.c | grep st1 In this example the command is lengthy and if I want to ...
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