Changing mouse cursor

[balanga]

My mouse cursor is too small and sometimes it is difficult to see.

How do I get a bigger mouse cursor, preferably one surrounded by a yellow circle like a highlighter?

 

[Snurg]

Indeed, the default cursor is hard to see sometimes.
This annoyed me sometimes, too.
Using this howto and reading a bit more background here made me install Oxygen Yellow locally in .icons.
I like it!

 

[xchris]

alternative unpack your own cursor theme then :

# ln -s /usr/local/share/icons/MY_CURSOR /usr/local/share/icons/default

 

[aragats]

My mouse cursor is too small and sometimes it is difficult to see.

Do you mean the console mouse cursor or X's?
Not sure about console, for the X just add a couple of lines to your ~/.Xresources with the cursor theme and its size:

Xcursor*theme: redglass
Xcursor*size: 24

You can install some standard themes with x11-themes/xcursor-themes. I find redglass much more attractive.

 

[balanga]

Is there anywhere which actually displays cursors so that you can see what they look like before downloading and installing them?

 

[xchris]

you can find some cursors there:
https://store.kde.org/ or https://www.gnome-look.org/

 

[Deleted member 30996]

I use the black cursor with white border I get with x11-wm/fluxbox, as I prefer a dark background.