If you see a warning then you can confirm that you want to access that page. Search Support Search. Home Support Forums Firefox Size of the text cursor insertion point? Learn More. Chosen solution Try to create these two integer prefs: ui. Cursor size has been changed to being.
Hello and thank you in advance for hopfully an answer to this most what would appear to be simple problem. The Cursor size has been changed to being massive , by a computer technician.
To the extent of not being able to see where the exact place the cursor is. I have scrolled through the forum to no avail. Someone else has posted the same question but no correct answer. On my own I have tried the windows help but only gives information on how to change the ms-dos cursor, this is not the problem.
It is the cursor when typing anywhere anytime eg: Notepad or even windows explorer. This makes editing extremely difficult. Thank you so very much.
Many of these drivers are no longer compatible with today's video hardware, but you may still be able to use x43 and other text mode combinations with current video hardware by using a separate utility to set the DOS video mode before running WordPerfect, or with a new VESA text driver for WPDOS 5. But before you experiment, very carefully read the section above on what to do if your screen becomes scrambled or goes blank!
The driver supports and column text in 25, 43, 50, and 60 rows. Download the driver in this self-extracting archive , run the archive program to extract the vgavesa. The new driver is more reliable than the earlier one when used under Windows and XP. Before using this driver, you should probably use the test programs in this VESA text mode test archive in order to determine whether any column modes are available with your video hardware.
If this occurs, don't panic! To return to normal text, press the following keys: Esc, Esc, Shift-F1, 2, 3, 2. Write down these keystrokes before using this driver! Under Windows 98, this driver works perfectly with the Nvidia-based video card in my desktop system, but the column modes do not work at all with the NeoMagic video chip in an old laptop that I used for testing. Warning: Some of the commands suggested here may produce results that look as if your system has locked up.
If this occurs, simply type the letters exit and press Enter to return to the Windows desktop you will not see anything on screen as you type. COM by F. Go to the linked page; download Setlines. EXE , by David Manthey; download it, and copy it to a directory where you can find it easily.
If you are running Windows, close down all applications because you may lock up your system, or seem to lock up your system, when experimenting with VMODE. COM to experiment with various video modes available with your hardware. Try vmode 4 and vmode 7 7 is monochrome to see some of the possibilities, but return to normal VGA color mode with vmode 3.
The number that switches your video card to columns and 43 lines will vary according to your video hardware. Try vmode 54 or vmode 42 or vmode 10A remember, these are hex numerals, not decimal. EXE command that may produce them on your system:. If none of these work, consult this dictionary of video modes source unknown ; search for "T " to find various modes with columns, and use the hex number at the left, omitting the "h", as the command-line parameter for VMODE.
When you have found a mode you want, start WordPerfect. If everything works correctly, you can set up a batch file that sets the video mode and then starts WordPerfect.
EXE converted from the original file, TM. COM, to prevent downloading errors. Go the DOS command line and enter. When you start WordPerfect, you will be able to see more text on screen, and, if you use any of "underline" text fonts supplied with WPDOS, the fonts will now display a continuous underline instead of a broken one. Monochrome mode gives you perhaps the most restful screen display, with advantages like a true hardware underline to indicate underlining, instead of a colored highlight.
Keep in mind that some video hardware displays a continuous non-broken underline in monochrome mode, while other hardware displays a broken dashed underline instead. Nvidia chips through the Geforce 7x00 series display a continuous underline; but the 8x00, MX, or later series display a broken one. The Intel graphics hardware that I have tried displays a continuous underline, but with an ugly font.
This command can be included in a batch file, or simply listed in the "Batch file" field of your WP Windows shortcut, on the Program tab. Some video chips notably those from Matrox and S3 cause a minor problem when WPDOS is run in monochrome mode: highlighted codes in the Reveal Codes window appear as gray-on-gray and cannot be read.
EXE patch program , generously provided by Haye van den Oever. EXE patch program into your WP directory. Back up your copy of WP. FIL before running the program. VRS file that may be downloaded from this site's graphics mode page. Modify the batch file described in method a elsewhere on this page so that it includes a line that runs VMODE followed by the number 7 and looks something like this:. Under Windows NT only, the first line may be omitted.
With many perhaps all video cards under Windows NT, , and XP, monochrome mode is almost unreadable in a window, but works perfectly in a full-screen display. Warning: Some video hardware displays only a blank screen when you attempt to switch to monochrome mode under Windows XP.
For example, I use a card based on the Nvidia Gefore GS chip; only some cards based on this chip can display monochrome mode, and I needed to experiment to find one that can. If your text runs off the right edge of the screen in text mode, your margins are too narrow or the point size of your text is too small.
Many studies of legibility have shown that text is difficult to read when the lines of type have about seventy characters or more. Change the font, point size or margin to bring the text into the character width of the standard VGA text screen. If this problem occurs often with your WP setup, record these actions as macros. With modern video cards, full-screen text-mode WPDOS sometimes starts with the screen badly positioned for example, with the status line a few inches above the bottom of the screen.
This can be fixed by switching into print preview and back to text mode. See your WP manual for instructions on startup macros. Note: After downloading and, if necessary, extracting any of the driver files listed here, copy the relevant. The new third-party VESA-compatible graphics mode driver is available from a link on this site's graphics mode page. The text-mode driver works with some other video chips in addition to Cirrus Logic chips, and may be worth trying if you cannot find a suitable driver for your hardware.
I have not tested these drivers. VRS has a bug reported by Gregor Jones that sometimes causes the last line on screen to disappear; another version of the driver found on Trident's site does not have this bug.
When you open a full-screen DOS session on your laptop computer, the DOS screen may occupy a small square in the middle of the screen. With most but not all laptop computers, you can expand the image to fill the screen, although with some loss of clarity because of the way in which LCD screens operate.
The option to "expand" or "stretch" the screen may be found in different places in different computers. However, with some computers, reportedly including some Sony models, you cannot stretch the screen at all. With some laptop computers, you can switch between small and expanded mode by using a keystroke like Fn-F7 or Fn-F8.
With other computers you must access BIOS settings that enable screen expansion; you may need to consult your computer manual to find out how to access these settings typically you must hold down the Del or F1 or F2 key during initial bootup. Look for a BIOS setting that includes the word "stretch" or "expand" or "expansion"; some Hewlett Packard models, for example have a setting called "Video Expansion". Change the setting from "Disable" or "Off" to "Enable" or "On"; save your settings; and restart your laptop computer.
If your system requires such a utility, and you do not have the one suitable for your model, you will need to search the internet for it, or ask for help in the appropriate forum at Thinkpads. From the Windows-based version of the Configuration Utility, go to the settings for the screen or monitor and find the option to "Enable Screen Expansion. Unfortunately, when you stretch the screen, the built-in font may appear slightly misshapen.
This problem is inherent in the technology of LCD screens. Some LCD monitors do a better job of smoothing the screen fonts; some do a worse job of it. If you are dissatisfied with the appearance of the screen font on your laptop, the only thing to do is find a different laptop.
Read this paragraph if you have ATI video hardware in your computer. Under Shift-F1, Display you may be tempted to select one or more of the ATI options for your text or graphics display type. Unless your ATI card was manufactured before around , do not choose these options!
You will only make your WP setup more or less unusable. These options do not work with any ATI hardware used on current computers.
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