How to Change Pointer Color

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How to Change Pointer Color

I Googled the subject and found all kinds of question about how to change the color of the black OS X pointer cursor but did not see a success story. I looked at, but did not insttall, the mightymouse-20b1.dmg. It does too much and may or may not change the color. Too bad we no longer have the good old ResEdit.

I have one program I use with a black background and the OS X black pointer gets lost in the background.

Has anyone figured out how to change the pointer's color?

24" iMac 2.4 GHz-2 GB Intel Core 2 Duo, Mac OS X (10.5.7)

Posted on Jun 16, 2009 8:14 AM

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Answer 1

thomas_r.

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Jun 16, 2009 8:26 AM in response to aRKay

Even with ResEdit, creating a color cursor was not easy, IIRC. The 'CURS' resource defined black and white cursors only. Sure, you could hack the pointer to make it look like, say, a sword... but it had to be a black and white sword. I don't think color cursors were possible until towards the end of pre-X systems, except via an extension.

As to how to do this on Mac OS X, I have no idea, but to solve your problem, you could try this:

http://www.2point5fish.com/

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Answer 2

aRKay Author

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Jun 16, 2009 9:17 AM in response to thomas_r.

As to how to do this on Mac OS X, I have no idea, but to solve your problem, you could try this:

http://www.2point5fish.com/

Nice but too slow for real time mouse selection points

"Controllable trigger time period, from 1 second to 30 minutes."

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Answer 3

Jun 16, 2009 10:02 AM in response to aRKay

No, but how about using OmniDazzle? It's awesome for this, and it's free now.

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Answer 4

aRKay Author

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Jun 16, 2009 11:29 AM in response to William Lloyd

Like others the OmniDazzle does a lot of foo-foo; however, it does not let
you change the color of the OS X arrow pointer. Thanks but I am still looking

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