I use big-cursor in an environment where I want to make presentation with
huge cursors so that audience can clearly see what I'm doing, but at any
other time I want the small cursors.  This can be easily done previously:
I just need to have a special user for presentation, and modify the init
scripts so that it changes the font path before the window manager starts.
But after big-cursor 3.0, I have had a hard time making this possible: the
font is coined into misc, and there is no directory at all where the
user can choose whether he want big cursors.

I agree that the current version is good to probably have of the users of
big-cursor, who always want cursors to be big: it makes it unnecesary for
any configuration.  But it also makes it unusable for the remaining half
of the users.  Please consider adding an option using debconf.

Isaac To wrote:

You can use dpkg-divert to turn it on and off.

On:

        dpkg-divert --package big-cursor --add --rename --divert \
                /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/misc/cursor.pcf.gz-small \
                /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/misc/cursor.pcf.gz

Off:

        dpkg-divert --package big-cursor --remove --rename --divert \
                /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/misc/cursor.pcf.gz-small \
                /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/misc/cursor.pcf.gz

    Joey> You can use dpkg-divert to turn it on and off.

    Joey> On:

    Joey> dpkg-divert --package big-cursor --add --rename --divert \
    Joey> /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/misc/cursor.pcf.gz-small \
    Joey> /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/misc/cursor.pcf.gz

    Joey> Off:

    Joey> dpkg-divert --package big-cursor --remove --rename --divert \
    Joey> /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/misc/cursor.pcf.gz-small \
    Joey> /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/misc/cursor.pcf.gz

I know.  But the point is that I can't do it in a per-user basis---unless
the user copy out cursor.pcf.gz, make out a font directory himself, and
prepend that directory into the font path.

Regards,
Isaac.