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My wife had just switched from windows to the latest Mint (Cinnamon). The one thing she misses from windows is the mouse pointer. It animates so that it's light coloured on dark objects and dark on light objects. It makes it easy for her to find.

Anyone know how to do this in Cinnamon?

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[–] HelloRoot@lemy.lol 10 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (2 children)

https://github.com/jinliu/kwin-effect-xorcursor

Kwin won't load C++ plugins from your home directory, so you have to install it to /usr

[–] PrivateNoob@sopuli.xyz 4 points 1 week ago

This sounds cool but the wife in question uses Cinnamon.

[–] 56_@slrpnk.net 2 points 1 week ago

Yes, this is also the only implementation of this I could find. I'm not sure if the cinnamon js api is capable of something similar.