There are also programs available to show mouse clicks and key presses which can be really helpful in screencasts. To do this, run: gsettings set cursor-theme "$OLD_THEME" Once you're finished your screencast, you may want to switch back to your previous theme (the system default is DMZ-White). If the new theme is active for some applications but not others or if it does not appear to be active at all, you may need to completely terminate all instances of the applications for which it is not active or log off entirely and log back in. OLD_THEME=$(gsettings get cursor-theme) & echo $OLD_THEMEĪt this point, all that was left to do was to enable the theme. Blended is a cool mouse cursors pack by the member devlindd on Devian Art. Also, the giant size cursors are 24×24 pixels. The colors of the icons available are yellow and blue. Then I copied the cyan theme to the proper directory, renaming it screencast sudo cp -r /tmp/bDMZT/abDMZ/ /usr/share/icons/screencast/īefore enabling the new cursor theme, I made note of the current theme. With one pack, you get 4 sets of pointer icons, which is a combination of several hundreds of icons. The file I downloaded contains multiple themes (each a different color halo) so I first extracted the contents to a temp folder tar -xzf /path/to/download/ -C /tmp/ With the cursor theme downloaded, I got to work on installing it. Installing and enabling the cursor for screencasting Now you should have a new cursor like the Big Red Pointer. Now for Normal, Select choose the file BigRedArrow.cur now click Open.
#RED GLOW MOUSE CURSOR PACK DOWNLOAD#
To download, click the files tab and then download the. On the Pointers tab Select the Cursor/Icon you would like to replace and then Click Browse. I eventually ended up here, and after looking through a number of pages of different cursors, I settled on this one. The Highlight option surrounds the mouse pointer with a geometric shape (Circle, Ellipse, Rectangle or Round Rectangle). The Pointer option does provide an eye-catching cursor.
![red glow mouse cursor pack red glow mouse cursor pack](https://i.imgur.com/XTFsbGV.png)
When I realized that this could be accomplished with a cursor theme (duh!), I went in search of some themes. Highlight Mouse Pointer during Presentations: Presentation Pointer allows you to highlight mouse pointer that makes it easy for your audience to follow your actions on the screen.
![red glow mouse cursor pack red glow mouse cursor pack](http://www.rw-designer.com/cursor-teaser-big/glowing-rgb.png)
![red glow mouse cursor pack red glow mouse cursor pack](https://thumbs.dreamstime.com/b/set-line-computer-mouse-color-palette-guide-red-eye-effect-rgb-cmyk-mixing-glowing-neon-icon-vector-185865331.jpg)
Here's an animated GIF of what I ended up with and how I got it working. I ended up at this answer which had some broken links and left me still in search of themes that someone else had surely created.