Re: Some work-arounds [Was: xterm mouse pointer colour won't change]

Erik Christiansen <dvalin@internode.on.net> wrote:

$ su - # xinit /usr/bin/xterm -ms red

Fatal server error: Server is already active for display 0 If this server is no longer running, remove /tmp/.X0-lock and start again.

If you had an X session running when you did this, you should have switched to a virtual console and shut down the X server temporarily. It seems that you solved the original problem satisfactorily, however.