Re: xterm mouse pointer colour won't change

Erik Christiansen wrote:

Environment: Ubuntu 10.04, gnome.

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 then tried putting this:

*XTerm.pointerColor: red

into ~/.Xdefaults , but it also had zero visible effect.

Maybe it doesn't like red? Let's try:

$ /usr/bin/xterm -bg darkslategrey -fg yellow -ms blue

Nah. Humph. I'll try again tomorrow, I think.

Can you reproduce the issue WITHOUT gnome, i.e. xinit /usr/bin/xterm -ms red