bug#22574: 24.5; Mouse pointer border color is set to `Emacs.background` value defined in ~/.Xresources

bug#22574: 24.5; Mouse pointer border color is set to `Emacs.background` value defined in ~/.Xresources

[Michal Rus]

1. $ printf 'Emacs.background: #ff0000\nEmacs.pointerColor: 
#00ff00\n' > ~/.Xresources

2. $ emacs

3. Evaluate: (set-background-color "blue")

4. The pointer border is red…

There seems to be no .Xresources setting to change the 
border. Other applications use *pointerColor2 or 
*pointerColorBackground to define this color.

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-- 
Michal Rus

bug#22574: 24.5; Mouse pointer border color is set to `Emacs.background` value defined in ~/.Xresources

[Lars Ingebrigtsen]

Michal Rus <m@michalrus.com> writes:

> 1. $ printf 'Emacs.background: #ff0000\nEmacs.pointerColor: #00ff00\n'
>> ~/.Xresources
>
> 2. $ emacs
>
> 3. Evaluate: (set-background-color "blue")
>
> 4. The pointer border is red…
>
> There seems to be no .Xresources setting to change the border. Other
> applications use *pointerColor2 or *pointerColorBackground to define
> this color.

Sounds like a good idea, but when testing this stuff out, I can't really
find that Emacs reacts to pointerColor at all.  I've tried different
toolkits, but the pointer stubbornly is black with a white outline no
matter what I do.  The -mc parameter has no effect for me, either.

Anybody know what's going on?  Perhaps Gnome Shell is overriding the
colours somehow?

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bug#22574: 24.5; Mouse pointer border color is set to `Emacs.background` value defined in ~/.Xresources

[Basil L. Contovounesios]

Lars Ingebrigtsen <larsi@gnus.org> writes:

> Michal Rus <m@michalrus.com> writes:
>
>> 1. $ printf 'Emacs.background: #ff0000\nEmacs.pointerColor: #00ff00\n'
>>> ~/.Xresources
>>
>> 2. $ emacs
>>
>> 3. Evaluate: (set-background-color "blue")
>>
>> 4. The pointer border is red…
>>
>> There seems to be no .Xresources setting to change the border. Other
>> applications use *pointerColor2 or *pointerColorBackground to define
>> this color.
>
> Sounds like a good idea, but when testing this stuff out, I can't really
> find that Emacs reacts to pointerColor at all.  I've tried different
> toolkits, but the pointer stubbornly is black with a white outline no
> matter what I do.  The -mc parameter has no effect for me, either.
>
> Anybody know what's going on?  Perhaps Gnome Shell is overriding the
> colours somehow?

Are you remembering to override / merge into the current database the
modified ~/.Xresources settings?

  $ xrdb ~/.Xresources        # replace current settings
  $ xrdb -merge ~/.Xresources # merge with current settings

Thanks,

-- 
Basil

bug#22574: 24.5; Mouse pointer border color is set to `Emacs.background` value defined in ~/.Xresources

[Lars Ingebrigtsen]

"Basil L. Contovounesios" <contovob@tcd.ie> writes:

> Are you remembering to override / merge into the current database the
> modified ~/.Xresources settings?
>
>   $ xrdb ~/.Xresources        # replace current settings
>   $ xrdb -merge ~/.Xresources # merge with current settings

Yup.  Apparently nothing I do affects the pointer colour at all.

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