I-beam cursor color in Mavericks's terminal

Solution 1:

As many have mentioned above, I did this -

1. Take a backup of existing ShadowedIBeam.tiff

   cp Terminal.app/Contents/Resources/ShadowedIBeam.tiff Terminal.app/Contents/Resources/ShadowedIBeam.orig.tiff
   

2. Make your own cursor .... or, if you are a lazy one, just use this one - (credit: Chris Dragon and his answer on this thread)

3. Then copy it over the original ShadowedIBeam.tiff

   sudo cp ~/Downloads/TIbeam.tiff Terminal.app/Contents/Resources/ShadowedIBeam.tiff
   

4. And finally, run this -

   defaults write com.apple.Terminal UseCustomIBeamCursor -bool YES
   

If you were as lucky as I was, you should have your eyes profusely thanking you in sheer gratitude!

Solution 2:

It looks like it was possible before Mavericks by editing

/Applications/Utilities/Terminal.app/Contents/Resources/ShadowedIBeam.tiff

I've tried changing that file, but it is never reflected in Terminal. I'd love to change this as I have a dark background color too.