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Ideally, I'd like to change the mouse pointer appearance(s) at notebook level, from a styleseet. However, I'd be satisfied only by changing its color. This is the main issue keepeing me away from dark themes: the pointer becomes hard to find.

There seems to be an option "MousePointerAppearance" but I don't know how/if it works.

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  • $\begingroup$ where do you see this option? $\endgroup$
    – acl
    Commented Jul 17, 2014 at 14:22
  • $\begingroup$ @acl in the option inspector under Editing options, v10 $\endgroup$
    – Rojo
    Commented Jul 17, 2014 at 14:42
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    $\begingroup$ This almost gets there, but the mouse style resets if you click or move away from the notebook. FrontEndExecute[FrontEnd`SetMouseAppearance[Graphics@{Red, Text@"x"}]] $\endgroup$
    – mfvonh
    Commented Jul 17, 2014 at 16:19
  • $\begingroup$ @mfvonh nice attempt $\endgroup$
    – Rojo
    Commented Jul 17, 2014 at 16:55
  • $\begingroup$ Try singing a nice song $\endgroup$
    – Dr. belisarius
    Commented Jul 18, 2014 at 0:29

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A little improvement according to mfvonh's idea:

SetOptions[InputNotebook[], Background -> GrayLevel[0]]
SetOptions[
           InputNotebook[],
           NotebookEventActions -> {
                   "MouseClicked" :> 
                          FrontEndExecute[ FrontEnd`SetMouseAppearance[
                                     Dynamic@Style["\[Earth]", "Graphics", 30, Hue[Clock[]]]
                                                                      ]],
                   PassEventsDown -> True
                                   }
          ]

Sadly "MouseEntered" or "MouseOver" are both not working here.

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  • $\begingroup$ Nice idea Silvia, +1. However, the Graphics background seems to be non-transparent if I put the notebook background black $\endgroup$
    – Rojo
    Commented Sep 23, 2014 at 23:34
  • $\begingroup$ @Rojo Try my new improvement please :) $\endgroup$
    – Silvia
    Commented Sep 24, 2014 at 13:50
  • $\begingroup$ Nice icon, it feels like I am about to shoot at the code. It can be seen in any background :P (even in this SetOptions[InputNotebook[], Background -> Dynamic@Hue@Clock[]]). $\endgroup$
    – Rojo
    Commented Sep 24, 2014 at 14:05
  • $\begingroup$ Strange, when I just change to "LinkHand" it switches when I move cursor out of the window, but yours pointer keeps it's value. $\endgroup$
    – Kuba
    Commented Mar 27, 2015 at 11:30
  • $\begingroup$ @Kuba Have you tried moving the cursor fast enough so it won't trig the "cross window boarder" event? $\endgroup$
    – Silvia
    Commented Apr 2, 2015 at 11:28

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