How to Change Putty Cursor Color or Mouse Pointer Color?
Sometimes, cursor or mouse pointer does not visible on your putty terminal console. The reason behind that is cursor color and putty background color are set to same color configuration. You will not be able to see putty cursor or mouse pointer on putty console if your putty background color and cursor color is set as black. If you want to see the putty cursor or putty mouse pointer on your terminal console then we need to either change the putty background color or we need to change putty cursor color. If you want to change PuTTY background color from black to white or any color as per your choice then you should read attached article and if you want to change color for putty cursor or mouse pointer then you should keep reading this article.
Change Putty Cursor Color or Mouse Pointer Color
You can see background color in my putty console is showing as black and cursor color is showing as green. Now I want to change the putty cursor color or mouse pointer color to red.
1- To start this, we will Right click on the top border of putty console and choose “Change Settings…”
2- You will get below settings window. Now click on Colours tab from left side pane and we need to select an option from right side pane for which we must change the color. As we have to change cursor color or mouse pointer color so we will select Cursor Colour from right side pane. Click on Modify button to select color as per your choice for your cursor or mouse pointer.
Colours->Cursor Colour->Modify
3- Once you click on modify button, you will get custom colors window to choose appropriate color for your putty cursor or mouse pointer. I have selected red color as shown in below screenshot. Click on Ok and then on Apply button to reflect this change.
4- Once you click on apply button, you will see putty cursor color will be changed to red on your putty console. You can see this in below screenshot as well. Now your Putty cursor color has been changed to the color as per your choice in this article.
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This does not change the mouse. It only changes the cursor color at the command line. It has nothing to do with the color of the mouse.
This has nothing to do with Mouse Pointer Color. It is the cursor color not the pointer.
Do this:
control panel > Mouse > Change how the mouse pointer looks > from “Scheme” Pulldown Menu select “Windows Inverted (extra large) (system scheme)” > Apply and OK.
You can play with the options at “Scheme” Pulldown Menu and see different pointers.