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Ortega Ruiz's message of "Wed, 09 Feb 2022 03:50:19 +0000") X-Mailer: WebService/1.1.19724 mail.backend.jedi.jws.acl:role.jedi.acl.token.atz.jws.hermes.yahoo X-BeenThere: debbugs-submit@debbugs.gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.18 Precedence: list X-BeenThere: bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org List-Id: "Bug reports for GNU Emacs, the Swiss army knife of text editors" List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: bug-gnu-emacs-bounces+geb-bug-gnu-emacs=m.gmane-mx.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: "bug-gnu-emacs" Xref: news.gmane.io gmane.emacs.bugs:226433 Archived-At: Jose A Ortega Ruiz writes: > Hi, > > right now, when using alpha-background, the cursor is set to the opacity > of the background (i think that is because, as documented, only the > :background attribute of the face is used). that means that, if one sets > 'alpha-background to 0 to make the background transparent, the cursor > becomes invisible when not over a character (and really difficult to > spot even when over one), no matter its colour (i've tried with pgtk and > no-toolkit builds). > > Am i missing an existing setting to avoid that problem, or perhaps doing > something wrong? if not, it'd be nice to have the option of making the > cursor behave as foreground (perhaps by honouring :foreground in its > face, if set), so that one could have a fully transparent background and > a cursor visible at all times. It doesn't make much sense for `alpha-background' to affect the cursor for the reasons you have mentioned. Please try a build '--without-cairo' (and also without PGTK) and see if that solves the problem. Thanks.