Changing the cursor in Xcode

Do you also use a dark theme in xcode, but you can't really see the cursor? Well here's the perfect solution.

Xcode 7.3

Apple changed the format of the cursor, now being an Asset.car. Copy the provided Asset.car to the following directory:

/Applications/Xcode.app/Contents/SharedFrameworks/DVTKit.framework/Versions/A/Resources/

Xcode 7.2 and earlier

Open terminal on your mac an type the following:

cd /Applications/Xcode.app/Contents/SharedFrameworks/DVTKit.framework/Versions/A/Resources # 1
cp DVTIbeamCursor.tiff{,.old} # 2
convert DVTIbeamCursor.tiff -negate DVTIbeamCursor.tiff # 3

• 1 open the folder containing the cursor
• 2 create a .old copy of the cursor, for backup
• 3 invert the cursor and replace it

bash: convert: command not found

If you don't have convert on your machine, you can just download the converted cursor from my repo.

I'm on @wesslansimon if you have questions or just intrested in having a cup of coffee.