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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1Do 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 GreensteinAug 4, 2011 at 20:09
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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.– nachocabAug 4, 2011 at 20:53
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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.– JhericoMay 10, 2012 at 21:06
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Did you find a solution yourself? :) It's very irritating especially with an external main monitor, the pointer gets lost on the side monitor– KaanNov 11, 2014 at 8:36
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@KaanSoral, nah, I just switched to a light background in iTerm to make it more visible– nachocabNov 11, 2014 at 23:08
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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.
answered Aug 4, 2011 at 21:41
I've started having this problem also, not sure if it started happening after i got a retina screen or upgraded to mavericks, or im just getting old. My suggestion is to try iTerm2 which have a bit more visible "hairpin".
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I'm having this issue after upgrading to Yosimite from Mountain Lion. It is definitely dimmer. :/ May 13, 2015 at 17:54
If you mean the blinking cursor, then you need to go into the terminal preferences. Here's a picture to help you better understand
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3Thanks, 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.– nachocabAug 4, 2011 at 20:40