Here’s an interesting and perplexing point about MacOS cursors tangentially related to this article.<p>Final Cut Pro, Apple’s flagship video editing software, overrides the default MacOS cursor with a <i>nearly identical, but slightly different</i> cursor shape. It’s almost exactly the same as the standard retina MacOS cursor but the little “stem” at the bottom is shorter & points slightly more to the right. I’d expect this from a weird niche bit of open source software, but for one of the Mac’s flagship applications it’s a bit strange. Perhaps someone here could enlighten me to the purpose of this bizarre quirk.
This got me wondering how I could set my macOS system cursors to something else.<p><a href="https://github.com/alexzielenski/Mousecape/releases">https://github.com/alexzielenski/Mousecape/releases</a><p>+<p><a href="https://www.deviantart.com/allannyholm/art/Mousecape-Throwback-2021-Mac-cursors-781872368" rel="nofollow">https://www.deviantart.com/allannyholm/art/Mousecape-Throwba...</a><p>+<p>The 2 .zip cursor packs on here <a href="https://www.macintoshrepository.org/33199-mighty-mouse" rel="nofollow">https://www.macintoshrepository.org/33199-mighty-mouse</a><p>Works on Ventura.
has anyone figured out how to change the default cursor in macos? i.e. to another color.<p>i remember looking around for this a while ago and found nothing. with 4k+ displays these days finding the cursor is sometimes frustrating.<p>and the cursor radar thing is annoying to use
<a href="http://www.rw-designer.com/gallery?search=human&page=2" rel="nofollow">http://www.rw-designer.com/gallery?search=human&page=2</a>
this one is for windows. they have custom ones which is cool
If you want to investigate the history of the macOS cursor, and other cursor schemes, I highly recommend this video:<p><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YThelfB2fvg">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YThelfB2fvg</a><p>+<p><a href="http://www.michieldb.nl/other/cursors/" rel="nofollow">http://www.michieldb.nl/other/cursors/</a>
Whenever I install a fresh Linux distro, the very first thing I do is I install a macOS cursor and replace the default one. I just can't use a mouse without this cursor. Every other cursor just doesn't look right to me. I know, I know... I'm sure others tend to install whatever they're familiar with.
It's common to see tutorial videos use a different cursor that also reacts to clicks, eg. <a href="https://ghost.org/videos/themes.mp4" rel="nofollow">https://ghost.org/videos/themes.mp4</a><p>How is this done?
These are Apple IP. It's most likely a violation of Apple copyrights and design patents to use them publicly or in a commercial context (aside from referencing them in CSS or displaying them using the proper macOS API calls).