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I usually use a pure crisp black background for my word documents, and I usually type in a white colour. My probelm is that I cannot actually see the insertion point which blinks. So is it possible to change the colour of my Cursor point? I have looked around a while. I use a Mac OS Sierra.
To customize its color, change the:background attribute of the face named cursor (see Face Customization). (The other attributes of this face have no effect; the text shown under the cursor is drawn using the frame's background color.).
Jan 07, 2015 How to Change the Highlighting Text Selection Color on Mac. The Highlight Color setting is in the open but easily overlooked: Go to the Apple menu and go to “System Preferences” Choose the “General” preference panel; Near the top of the panel pulldown the menu next to “Highlight color:” and pick the color to change to.

How to Change the Highlighting Text Selection Color on Mac. The Highlight Color setting is in the open but easily overlooked: Go to the Apple menu and go to “System Preferences” Choose the “General” preference panel; Near the top of the panel pulldown the menu next to “Highlight color:” and pick the color to change to. Without a cursor, your Mac would be pretty hard to use. In fact, it would be all but impossible to use, save for a few keyboard shortcuts. The cursor is what makes it so easy to navigate around.

Sometimes after writing some code in the terminal, I find it very hard to find my mouse pointer quickly because it is very invisible in the dark background. So I decide to find a good way to solve this problem.

Actually there is not very good post about the mouse pointer in Mac, that is why I write this blog post.

1. Change system mouse cursor size

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OSX does not have options for changing the color of the mouse pointer, but you can change the size of if in System Preferences > Accessibility > Display to make the mouse pointer bigger.

2. Add something around the cursor

You can use some 3-party software such as Mouse locator to creates a green crosshair of sorts around the cursor making it easy to identify. Magic bullet colorista free download mac. I did not test this way but you can try as you like.

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3. Change system mouse cursor image

I like github. I found an open source software called Mousecape in github here, which allows the customization of cursors for Mac OS X 10.8-10.10, you can use it to change the cursor of your mac quickly. If you do not want to create the icon by yourself, just use the default cape file in the source. It works great!

5. Why it still looks so bad in some application

After changing the mouse pointer by using Mousecape, I found the cursor looks still bad in iTerm2 app, then I realized that some app such as iTerm2 might use the image of its local file instead of global. Actually I got that somebody have the same problem since the mouse cursor is not invisible in darkground xcode.

Many people like set the iTerm2 background to dark, so if we change the image file used by iTerm2 to show the mouse cursor, then our problem can be fixed. Here we go

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Download this cursor image to your mac
Enter the directory /Applications/iTerm.app/Contents/Resources
Rename the IBarCursor.tiff to IBarCursor.tiff.bak, IBarCursorXMR.tiff to IBarCursorXMR.tiff.bak
Put the downloaded image to this directory and rename it to IBarCursor.png and IBarCursorXMR.png
Now close iTerm2 and restart it, you can see the mouse in the app is more visible than before.

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