When i hover my mouse over any terminal emulator the pointer turns to an ibeam. This stops if i open emacs or some other terminal applications. How can i get the cursor beck to normal
It would probably be helpful to include things like what desktop environment and terminal you are using.
BSPWM, but i tried in i3 and KDE and the problem persisted
Its not a ‘problem’ … this is expected behavior.
But if it is configurable it would probably matter the terminal emulator you are using.
(konsole
, st
, gnome-terminal
, etc)
It happens on every terminal emulator
And it happens on every one here too.
This is long-standing convention.
The cursor probably similarly changes to an I-beam when you mouse over the text input box here on the forum.
Because these are editable text windows.
Or more to the point - its text you can select and copy and as such … the I-beam.
Just as with text on webpages.
Since you were asking about it I assumed there may be some option in some terminal … but I dont notice one in konsole, nor do I notice it by quickly searching other terminal emulators.
(someone on a fedora mailing list in 2014 claims to remember such on option in xterm
when they were previously using bsd
… for whatever thats worth… Changing the mouse pointer shape in terminal.)
Yh i realized what happen i was confused because mouse support was disabled in ncmpcpp
I know this I-Beam Cursor is not a bug and a expected behavior, but i also want to add i also dislike the I-Beam in my KDE Terminal, because the I-Beam is really hard to identify in the Terminal Window for me… of course the Shiny Transparency/Blur effect Window doesn’t help in this situation
Do you know a option how to change the Colour or the whole mouse cursor only in the Terminal Console window? Or get the I-Beam thicker?
You can’t. You can try different cursor themes.
Sad story, but atleast i know now the answer… thanks anyways.
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