On Thu, 22 Mar 2012 04:39:14 pm Glenn McIntosh wrote:
On Tue, 20 Mar 2012 23:06:53 +1100, Erik Christiansen <dvalin@internode.on.net> wrote:
After a couple of decades of running xterms with "-fg yellow -bg darkslategrey", I'm finding it harder to locate the mouse pointer when it's over text, even if I thrash the rat, to try to detect the motion. So I added "-ms red" to the xterm invocation. But that little I-like pointer remains white with a black border.
I can also replicate this behaviour on Debian.
On two machines running Debian Squeeze (stable) and another running Debian Wheezy (testing), the '-ms' flag of xterm appears to have no effect. These machines all have gdm3 installed, and are running a reasonably default Gnome desktop.
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 I can change the colour with xterm -xrm 'XTerm*cursorColor: green' but not xterm -xrm '*cursorColor: green' -- Anthony Shipman Mamas don't let your babies als@iinet.net.au grow up to be outsourced.