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From: Po Lu via "Bug reports for GNU Emacs, the Swiss army knife of text editors" <bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
To: Visuwesh <visuweshm@gmail.com>
Cc: 57264@debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#57264: 29.0.50; Wrong xcursor colour when over an Emacs frame
Date: Fri, 19 Aug 2022 22:07:34 +0800	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <87pmgwmimx.fsf@yahoo.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87v8qocq7c.fsf@gmail.com> (Visuwesh's message of "Fri, 19 Aug 2022 19:04:15 +0530")

Visuwesh <visuweshm@gmail.com> writes:

> Thanks.  But do you know why I am seeing this behaviour?  I cannot see
> what is wrong with the theme.  Supposedly, the input to the xcursorgen
> program and the image files are good.  I opened the generated Xcursor
> file in GIMP and it is also of the expected colours.  I am unfortunately
> lost and I would be really grateful if you can give any pointers.

The Xcursor library doesn't set foreground and background colors for
core cursors by default, and the application didn't set them either.

> BTW, all this made me think: why not let the user set the foreground
> colour of the cursor, via the mouse face, too?  This would at least
> solve my problem immediately despite being an awful hack.

I think that would work.  I will work on it but it may or may not take a
while depending on how busy I am in the next several days.





  reply	other threads:[~2022-08-19 14:07 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 9+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2022-08-17 18:38 bug#57264: 29.0.50; Wrong xcursor colour when over an Emacs frame Visuwesh
2022-08-18  2:44 ` Po Lu via Bug reports for GNU Emacs, the Swiss army knife of text editors
2022-08-18 12:00   ` Visuwesh
2022-08-18 12:49     ` Po Lu via Bug reports for GNU Emacs, the Swiss army knife of text editors
2022-08-18 12:59       ` Visuwesh
2022-08-19  1:47         ` Po Lu via Bug reports for GNU Emacs, the Swiss army knife of text editors
2022-08-19 13:34       ` Visuwesh
2022-08-19 14:07         ` Po Lu via Bug reports for GNU Emacs, the Swiss army knife of text editors [this message]
2022-08-19 14:47           ` Visuwesh

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