In the Terminal app on your Mac, choose Terminal Preferences, then click Profiles. When you haven't moved your mouse for awhile and you move it, it'll display a circle around the pointer.
Unfortunately, it looks like MightyMouse has been discontinued:(I would recommend this free software that displays a circle around your cursor. Anything that allows you to change the color is paid software.
Join WWD for a Short Tutorial on How to Change the Look of Your Cursor on a Mac.Mousecape. I couldn't find any solution to trigger it back, from attempting to finger-fumble re-discover the initial trigger, to all the suggestions here and some other sites. My Dad’s been infected through just one of these ‘free’ downloads.Had this happen on a Mac while connected to a Windows machine via Remote Desktop, somehow while attempting to type open and closed curly braces (both of which typed). Why? Because it’s a very common transmission vector for viruses and spyware. Tip: there are also third-party fun cursor apps you can download. Decide it’s too big? Try just “large” as a compromise. Choose the extra large scheme, click “Apply” on the lower right of the window, and look how much bigger the cursor just got:Įasy enough, and it’ll remember across restarts so you should be good to go. It’s a bit hard to read (ironically) but in addition to the standard Aero scheme, there’s also “Windows Aero (large)” and “Windows Aero (extra large)”. You can see, mine currently says “Windows Aero (system scheme)”. You’ll see these options:Ĭlick on “Change mouse pointers” and you’ll move to a rather more complicated and information-dense window:Īs you can see, you can change individual cursors if you particularly dislike one, but instead, click on the pull-down menu under “Scheme”. Now you’ll go to a big window with many different options, one well worth exploring:įor now, though, stay with me and look on the top left. Anywhere’ll do.Ĭlick on “Personalize”, the last choice of the set shown.
Launch your PC and right-click on the Desktop photo. Let’s focus on cursors, though, and I’m going to show you a handy Win7 shortcut at the same time. In any case, Windows 7 is extraordinarily flexible and there are a ton of features included for people with visual impairments, including the ability to set a higher contrast color scheme, enlarge cursors, fonts, icons, system messages, change or increase volume of system sounds, and much more. Now if they were really cool, they’d have replacement eyes you could get, running “vision 0.9b” or something, and you’d have a slick heads-up display superimposed over everything you see, but perhaps I’m getting a bit ahead of myself. Microsoft’s got your back, nothing to worry about.