Mouse cursor very difficult to see in Terminal.

[trusktr]

Description

The mouse cursor is easy to see in text editor tabs, but not in the terminal.

I can't figure how to take screenshots including the mouse cursors in macOS. The Grab app allows us to pick a mock cursor, but it isn't the actual cursor.

What I see is that on the terminal, the black-colored i-beam cursor is active, and hard to see.

On regular text tabs, the i-beam is white-colored, and easy to see.

I have an overall dark theme in my Atom editor.

You should be able to reproduce by open a Terminal tab and hovering anywhere on the terminal text.

Versions

debug info with package info

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Additional Details

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[trusktr]

Maybe CSS can be used to style the mouse pointer to use a cursor image with good contrast on both dark and light themes.

[kcaze]

@trusktr, we aren't planning to style the mouse pointer, but you can customize your terminal background color in order to improve the visibility of the mouse pointer.

See #300 for details on how to customize the terminal background color.