On Thu, 22 Mar 2012 07:19:37 pm Glenn McIntosh wrote:
On Thu, 22 Mar 2012 18:17:37 +1100, Anthony Shipman <als@iinet.net.au> wrote:
It is stubbornly red on my machine but this is because of the X resources in the server: $ xrdb -q|grep cursorColor XTerm*cursorColor: red
The text cursor (cursorColor) and the mouse cursor (pointerColor) are handled separately. Compare: xterm -cr blue xterm -ms blue
Oops, my bad. Here's something more. The behaviour on my machine with Centos6.2 and nvidia depends on the cursor shape e.g. I can do xterm -ms red -xrm 'XTerm*pointerShape: gumby' -xrm 'XTerm*pointerColorBackground: green' and get red and green in the pointer, similarly for the shape 'iron_cross'. The colour is ignored for the shapes xterm (the I beam) and hand1, hand2 and fleur. You can find a list of cursor shapes in /usr/include/X11/cursorfont.h The libXcursor package may have an effect on the implementation of cursors. -- Anthony Shipman Mamas don't let your babies als@iinet.net.au grow up to be outsourced.