Change Mouse Pointer Color On Mac

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How to change cursor size and enable/disable shake mouse pointer to locate. You can also adjust the cursor size based on your preferences. Click the Apple menu on the top left of your screen. Click System Preferences. Click Accessibility.

To personalize your Mac, you may like to change the color of folders from the default blue to a shade of your choice. This customization will also help you quickly differentiate an important folder and know about it even without looking at its name. The idea behind modifying folder color in macOS is the same as changing apps and folder icons. So without further delay, let’ get started.

How to Change Color of Folders on Mac

  1. To change your Mac's screen display color, click the Apple menu → click System Preferences → click Display → click the Color tab → select a new profile from the list. Click the Apple menu.
  2. Join WWD for a Short Tutorial on How to Change the Look of Your Cursor on a Mac.Mousecape: https://github.com/alexzielenski/Mousecape/releases/download/0.0.
  3. Join WWD for a Short Tutorial on How to Change the Look of Your Cursor on a Mac.Mousecape: https://github.com/alexzielenski/Mousecape/releases/download/0.0.

You can do this for an existing folder as well as a new folder. In this guide, I am using a new folder.

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Step #1. Right-click in Finder or Desktop and click New Folder.

Step #2. Right-click on this folder and click Get Info.

Step #3. Click on the blue folder icon from the top left. You will see a dark outline around it.

Step #4. Press Command(⌘)+C or click Edit from Menu Bar and then select Copy.

Change Mouse Pointer Color On Mac

Step #5. Now open Preview from Launchpad. Or, open Finder → Applications → Preview.

Step #6. Click on File from the top. Next click New from Clipboard.

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Step #7. Click on the pencil icon (mark up icon).

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Step #8. Click on the prism icon.

Step #9. Now, use the sliders to change the color. Possibilities are limitless. You will see significant color changes when you drag the slider named Saturation, Tint, and Sepia. Play with every slider you see to achieve your desired color.

Step #10. Once done, close the Adjust Color pop-up.

Step #11. Click Edit from the top and choose Select All. You will see the dotted lines. If not, click on the big colored folder icon and then Select All.

Step #12. Next, click Edit → Copy.

Step #13. Go back to Get Info window and click on the folder icon from the top.

Step #14. Press Command(⌘)+V or click Edit from Menu Bar and then select Paste.

Step #15. Done! You may now close all open Windows-like Get Info and Preview.

The macOS folder color has been successfully changed.

That’s all, mate!

Now, you may go ahead and repeat this process for existing folders. Chances are little, but even if something goes wrong, the contents of the folder won’t be deleted. So, feel free to be creative.

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Sometimes after writing some code in the terminal, I find it very hard to find my mouse pointer quickly because it is very invisible in the dark background. So I decide to find a good way to solve this problem.

Actually there is not very good post about the mouse pointer in Mac, that is why I write this blog post.

1. Change system mouse cursor size

OSX does not have options for changing the color of the mouse pointer, but you can change the size of if in System Preferences > Accessibility > Display to make the mouse pointer bigger.

2. Add something around the cursor

You can use some 3-party software such as Mouse locator to creates a green crosshair of sorts around the cursor making it easy to identify. I did not test this way but you can try as you like.

3. Change system mouse cursor image

I like github. I found an open source software called Mousecape in github here, which allows the customization of cursors for Mac OS X 10.8-10.10, you can use it to change the cursor of your mac quickly. If you do not want to create the icon by yourself, just use the default cape file in the source. It works great!

Change Mouse Pointer Color On Mac

5. Why it still looks so bad in some application

After changing the mouse pointer by using Mousecape, I found the cursor looks still bad in iTerm2 app, then I realized that some app such as iTerm2 might use the image of its local file instead of global. Actually I got that somebody have the same problem since the mouse cursor is not invisible in darkground xcode.

Many people like set the iTerm2 background to dark, so if we change the image file used by iTerm2 to show the mouse cursor, then our problem can be fixed. Here we go

  1. Download this cursor image to your mac
  2. Enter the directory /Applications/iTerm.app/Contents/Resources
  3. Rename the IBarCursor.tiff to IBarCursor.tiff.bak, IBarCursorXMR.tiff to IBarCursorXMR.tiff.bak
  4. Put the downloaded image to this directory and rename it to IBarCursor.png and IBarCursorXMR.png
  5. Now close iTerm2 and restart it, you can see the mouse in the app is more visible than before.

How To Change Mouse Pointer Color On Mac

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