Why is the mouse cursor slightly tilted and not straight?

Re:Why is the mouse cursor slightly tilted and not straight? by Stratoscope on Sunday February 04, 2024 @06:52AM (#39249535)

Bingo! Now that you jogged my memory, I can confirm this.

The next question is why you need a white outline around the black arrow.

This is easy to answer: if you didn't do that, what would the black arrow look like against a black background?

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Re:Why is the mouse cursor slightly tilted and not straight? by justsomehnguy on Sunday February 04, 2024 @07:36AM (#39249748)

Some DE solved that by having an inverse outline.

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Re:Why is the mouse cursor slightly tilted and not straight? by bmicraft on Sunday February 04, 2024 @07:53AM (#39249819)

I'm pretty sure even on windows there is the option of having the whole cursor be the inverse of the background

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Re:Why is the mouse cursor slightly tilted and not straight? by whywhywhywhy on Monday February 05, 2024 @07:52AM (#39260726)

The format has a special color for it, you can mix inverse pixels anywhere in a classic windows cursor IIRC

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Re:Why is the mouse cursor slightly tilted and not straight? by jsjohnst on Sunday February 04, 2024 @09:43AM (#39250530)

Took me a really long pause to think up what DE meant, so to save others from similar waste “desktop environment”

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