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In this video for the Mac, See how to change the size of the cursor. Just go to the main screen of your Mac, right-click and select Personalize. It's all done through the Mac's Accessibility preferences. This includes increasing the size od the cursor, as well as decreasing the size. This entry was posted in How-To and tagged blink rate, cursor, text cursor on Decemby Topher Kessler. In this lesson for the Mac, I show you how you can change the cursor size on the Mac. If you want to revert any of the changes you have made to the cursor blink rate, simply re-run the command above, and use 1000 as its value, or you can optionally delete the custom settings entry by running the following commands, and OS X will then use its default built-in value: defaults delete -g NSTextInsertionPointBlinkPeriodĭefaults delete -g NSTextInsertionPointBlinkPeriodOnĭefaults delete -g NSTextInsertionPointBlinkPeriodOff

Also note that this will only work for applications and text fields that are coded with Apple’s text view coding objects, so programs that use alternative text handling routines may not show a difference in blink rate. When you have made these changes, you will need to quit and re-launch your applications for the changes to take effect, and in some cases you might need to log out and back into your account. Of course this is your text cursor, but you can change its blink rate, if you would like. I recommend you try values of 200 to 2000 to see how these make the cursor behave with respect to the default value (1000 for the first command, and 500 for both the second commands), but then give intermediate values a try. To have the cursor blink faster, you will need to reduce this value, and to make it blink slower, increase this value. In all of these commands, the number value is the delay time in milliseconds, so 1000 will represent one second. The two commands to adjust how long the cursor stays on and off are the following: defaults write -g NSTextInsertionPointBlinkPeriodOn -float 200ĭefaults write -g NSTextInsertionPointBlinkPeriodOff -float 200 This allows you to set the cursor to have uneven off and on times, so you can better customize its behavior to your liking. Instead of having one setting dictate the entire period over which the cursor blinks, and then splitting the on-time and off-time for the cursor evenly for this period, Apple now has separate settings for the off and on times. If you are running OS X 10.9 or later, then Apple has changed how the cursor blinking is set.

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