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It often takes me a while to find the mouse crosshair when working with Terminal.app. Is there a way to make it more visible?

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Do you want to customize the mouse cursor (while you're moving it around), or the text cursor (that shows you where you are in some text)? – Nathan Greenstein♦ Aug 4 '11 at 20:09
The mouse pointer that appears when I am over the Terminal.app window. I would like it to be something more visible than a crosshair. – nachocab Aug 4 '11 at 20:53
To be more clear, this is largely a problem if you have the terminal background set to black, or otherwise a very dark color. Unlike the arrow pointer, the text select hairpin doesn't have a border color of white to make it visible against any background. – Jherico May 10 '12 at 21:06

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There's an app available to download called Mouse Locator which will put green markers around your cursor if you press a hotkey. That might help you but I don't know if it's still a working program under current OS X releases.

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If you mean the blinking cursor, then you need to go into the terminal preferences. Here's a picture to help you better understand

Terminal Prefences

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Thanks, Slick. But I meant the OSX pointer, it switches to a hairpin when you move it through the Terminal.app window, then it goes back to being an arrow. – nachocab Aug 4 '11 at 20:40

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