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Asked: 2020-11-30 02:24:50 +0800 CST

Typing/Text Cursor Thickness and Color

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Using Ubuntu 20.04. When using LibreOffice Writer, the text/typing cursor (thin vertical line indicating the insertion point in the sentence) is very difficult to see.

How to make it:-

  1. thicker ?
  2. a color that is easy to see ?

I was able to get it to blink....which is a slight improvement.

(Have searched in Ask Ubuntu and on internet; but very few and very old posts...none helpful for Ubuntu 20.04).

text cursor

1 Answers

  1. To make the text cursor thicker in a GTK3 based desktop (including standard Ubuntu, Budgie, XFCE), edit or create a configuration file .config/gtk-3.0/gtk.css and add the line:

    * { -GtkWidget-cursor-aspect-ratio: 0.05; }

    You can make the cursor even thicker by changing 0.05 to a higher number (0.1, 0.2, ...).

    I did not find a method to change the color of only the text cursor.

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