Changing the mouse's i-beam cursor in Xcode 4

Question

With a dark color scheme in Xcode 4 the i-beam cursor (aka text selection cursor) is nearly invisible. Is there a way to change the color of this cursor, either for Xcode speci

Answer 1

According to this thread on the Apple forums:

https://discussions.apple.com/thread/2811447?start=0&tstart=0

the "cursor color" referred to in the XCode 4 fonts and colors preferences is actually the cursor you see when you have clicked in a window to enter text.

The I-beam cursor you see when you are moving the mouse around in the code editing window is a Mac-OS wide feature which you cannot change in XCode.

The forum post above suggests looking for third party software to change attributes of the system-wide I-beam cursor.

Another post points out that you can at least edit the cursor size to make it more visible:

System Preferences -> Universal Access -> Mouse & Trackpad -> Cursor Size