Dark Mouse Cursor
Diante Scharsch
I installed the Visual Studio Color Theme Editor (which enables theming of the rest of the UI, as opposed to just the editor) in hopes that it would do this automatically if I used one of its dark themes, but no such luck.
I tried using different mouse pointers in Control Panel, but even though the cursor changed in some cases (for instance, if I picked one of the "very large" schemes), it was still black and so nearly invisible.
Based on upvotes, it appears this is still a problem with Visual Studio and Windows 10 in 2024 (been updating this every year since 2016...).Working off of szalski's and T. J. Crowder's solution, it can be changed in Windows 10:
Thank you Mitchell for the quick response. Unfortunately, while the mouse cursor in Windows 10 responds to the userscript, the script has no effect in OSX El Capitan which is where I need the option.Thanks for moving this to a feature request. I look forward to the day this setting is included in Komodo.
I, at least, am using KomodoIDE on Mac (El Capitan). I realize I may be quite alone, and that the number of programmers who prefer a dark background is a vanishingly small market, and the number who use Macs is even smaller, and the number who are willing to pay to use Komodo on top of that may be just me and (at least once upon a time) somebody named kawitt.
The mouse cursor will change to the bold "I" shape when normally placed over text that can be copied and pasted. in windows i've seen this cursor totally black, or white outlined in black, depending on the color of the background over the text is placed. When I use linux teamviewer and I am editing some text that is over a dark background, the mouse cursor remains the black "I" shape, and its very difficult to see it. normally using the computer without teamviewer, the copmuter would make the cursor white outlined in black. I've used teamviewer and have only had this problem on the linux versioin. Is there a way to fix this so the cursor will be white instead of black when the mouse if over text?
The only workaround I've found is to manually enable "show remote cursor" in the View options for the session every time. It's not ideal but will show a breif outline fo the correct cursor colour over dark text; but under the black cusor. So usible-ish, but could be a lot better.
quote by NiceKiwi "The issue is not present when connecting from the full desktop team viewer client on Windows 10"
I have the problem when connection to full desktop teamviewer on Windows 10
from full android teamviewer.
I even have changed the host windows teamviewer to dark theme. but curser still think background is white.
If it is chosen on client, I see no option for inverting mouse colors in the linux/android used as client.
Please make a color selection option for curser or make a soft glow to the curser, so it is not invisible on the dark background.
Dark background that is the real background nuance since Chalk came along.
Nobody ever liked the light background blinding you, so it is difficult to see the text.
Latecomers to PC do not know of dark background, but they often find it much better when shown. Ofc. it is a preference still.
Please make support, for the real background nuance.
Thank you @untouchable makes all the difference in the world. I had to talk with the IT department to get this sorted because I didn't have rights to customize the Windows look and feel, others might find themselves in a similar situation. The TeamViewer team definitely needs to fix this!
I am running Sonoma - but wether the English settings titles is named Preferences or System settings in Sonoma I don't no since my system language is Danish. I guessed it was System preferences. I think it's close enough for other users to understand!
I found the solution. The color of the cursor (not the mouse pointer) in fx Notes and all other text fields as well is set under System Preferences -> General -> Highlight color. This color is apparently used for both highlighted text and the cursor color as well. Not very intuitiv!
I ran into this problem only today. I was on an X11 session. Ran a system update. Rebooted and logged with under Wayland only to be met with a black screen and a large mouse cursor. Seems like a plasmashell error, so I ran
Never mind. It turns out that whatever trickery that automatically turned on modesetting without the need for the kernel parameter no longer does that. I had to explicitly add it to the kernel parameter and run grub-mkconfig to make it stick. I don't know what changed, but there you have it. Solved.
I had the same issue. This is NOT a caret issue - it's a mouse cursor issue with a dark theme ("Ruby Blue" for me). The culprit in the end turned out to be a long-time VirtualBox bug, as described here:
My solution was to change the "Text Select" curson to the "beam_r" cursor. Just go into Mouse Properooties -> Pointers, select the "Text Select" option, click on "Browse..." and select "beam_r.cur". From this screenshot, you can now clearly see my mouse cursor, even though I am using a dark theme.
I followed some advice I saw in the VR bugs thread. I un-installed all my VR apps, then re-installed them. and now DCS MultiThreading works fine without dizzyness. I didn't realize that MT came out after I had installed VR on my PC. Thanks much, I will keep using MT from here on out.
back in the day the VR mouse pointer ( white dot) use to be a white dot, which was easy to see against some dark cockpits, recently or maybe a little longer as i stepped away from DCS for a bit, this white dot, has now turned to a black dot! which makes it imposable to track and see where it is against say the UFC controller, am i jut being stupid or has it changed and is there a way to change it back?
@Flappie MT used to be very solid for me but since the last patch I too run ST all the time because there is now an extremely high chance in MT that at some point my VR feed goes black and never comes back. I much prefer MT, but in a 1 hour session I'm almost guaranteed to hit this at least once and I'm usually the game host, so I can't have that level of instability. Game is running fine, so everyone else can continue... but my VR somehow desync's is the best I can describe it. Only on MT, really hoping whatever was introduced in that patch goes back to normal later.
I think I might have worked around it by creating a new shortcut to launch DCS with "bin-mt\DCS.exe --force_enable_VR --force_OpenXR" instead of selecting options in the Steam launch window. Not sure what happened in the last patch to require me to do this to get things on OpenXR again but for now at least it's not crashing, still a black cursor but hopefully that gets fixed sometime I guess. Thanks for the note on the dedicated server, we were doing that previously. Might be time to start again.
Thanks Flappie, but this is still weird, because I did have the quick access linked to mt folder, please see attached picture, I have four icons for DCS, and I'm sure that each time I'm clicking on the DCS MT VR. Anyway, even for ST, black color cursor is a nightmare, are we able to change it maybe to blue or green? Thanks.
Thanks Flappie, but this is still weird, because I did have the quick access linked to mt folder, please see attached picture, I have four icons for DCS, and I'm sure that each time I'm clicking on the DCS MT VR.
latest update broke my st vr version. terrible lag in own created mission, mouse pointer turned into black cross. mt vr working ok but with micro stutters. my prosessor not the newest so thats why i have been using st, also if i remember correctly ED said at some point that older prosessors better use st version... and to clarify, my st vr was working perfectly with the settings i have before the update...
I've used a lot of operating systems, and those that support mouse cursors usually default to a black one with a white outline, with the notable exception of Windows. I used to think that this is because the designers of Mac OS wanted it to be different from Windows, so they used an inverted palette for the cursor, and then designers of other operating systems used the same as Mac OS because of the same reason, or because Mac OS is 'cooler'.
However, since I've used Mac OS more, I've realized that it's very heavily geared towards visual arts (a much more advanced color picker, font book, display profiler, etc. than any other OS), so they likely didn't pick the design of their cursor for such an arbitrary reason as "it's different".
Thus, there must be a benefit to this, but one does not come to mind. Certainly when I think of the Windows cursor, I think of it being more precise for some reason. So, what is the benefit to using a black cursor with a white outline, rather than a white one with black?
A black triangle with (a) point of focus at tip of the triangle; and (b) white outline is the best pointer for these white backgrounds, because the pointer and its tip render with the highest contrast.
A white pointer with a black outline is problematic on white backgrounds. The tip of the pointer cannot comfortably be on the black outline because it would be awkward against dark backgrounds. It can be at the tip of the white interior, but that means the user will need to perceive the negative space of the arrow, which adds cognitive load.
The Mac UI was inspired by early Smalltalk UIs, which had a black pointer (without outline). Most of both the Smalltalk and Mac screen was white, so a black pointer was more obvious. The Mac UI added the thin white outline so it would show up on better on the black regions of the screen (original Macs had only black and white screens).
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