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?
That sounds like an XOR pointer, which did used to be a standard feature in Windows. There were patents on it and xorg were threatened with legal action by the patent holder, so I don’t think it was ever added to X. Those patents have probably expired now, so it may be possible to do.
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
This sounds cool but the wife in question uses Cinnamon.
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.