Fancy Cursor disappeared from minimal theme

[dsuthapong]

In the past I remembered there used to be a function to turn on fancy cursor (making the cursor colorful) in minimal theme, but it’s now gone. Does anyone know where it went and how to make the cursor colorful?

[ariehen]

There’s a “Cursor style” setting in Style Settings if you’re using the Minimal theme, but I don’t see anything for color.

You can change the cursor color with a CSS snippet. As far as I know, anything else needs a plugin.

See this post for more details:

Non-native mouse cursor

From Licat (May 4th, 2022): PSA for theme developers: We’ve made a major change with respect to cursors and selection in the new (cm6) editor. From now on, the primary cursor and selection will be native. Previously the native cursor and selection were hidden and we artificially render all pieces of selection using a around the selected text. This new way has several advantages: - Much more performant, less battery drain. Native animations of the blinking cursor and selection pieces render f…

[dsuthapong]

This is helpful. Thank you so much!