1. Introduction There are several reasons why the standard X mouse cursors are hard to track for some people: when running X on a notebook with low contrast LCD on normal screens when using high resolution, 1600x1280 e. g. for visually impaired persons even on normal hardware In all cases it might help to use enlarged mouse cursors. Ideally this job should be done by a single X program that automatically enlarges every mouse cursor. To my knowledge there is no simple way to write a utility like this, because the X protocol has no provision to query mouse cursors. For more details see section Technical discussion below. If we aim for a less general goal, though, something can be done: There is a set of standard mouse cursors that can be found in the cursor font (try xfd -fn cursor to look at it). Most programs use these mouse cursors and the key idea is to replace the standard cursor font with an enlarged version.