From: Deniz Dogan <deniz.a.m.dogan@gmail.com>
To: Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
Cc: 6609@debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#6609: 23.2; Cursor becomes invisible when put over some faces
Date: Mon, 12 Jul 2010 10:09:04 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <AANLkTilowcTL6M9N9A6KF9u1N0KbHzbY2P0aSQG4ueYW@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <83hbk5t9r7.fsf@gnu.org>
2010/7/12 Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>:
>> From: Deniz Dogan <deniz.a.m.dogan@gmail.com>
>> Date: Sun, 11 Jul 2010 21:49:12 +0200
>> Cc: 6609@debbugs.gnu.org
>>
>> Terribly sorry about that. I did mean white foreground on black
>> background in the original report!
>
> A world of difference. I do see this problem on XP as well, then.
>
> Can someone try this on GNU/Linux in a GUI session, please? I'd like
> to know if this problem is specific to w32.
>
> To repeat the recipe:
>
> emacs -Q
>
> Insert this in the *scratch* buffer:
>
> (set-background-color "black")
> (set-foreground-color "white")
>
> Evaluate these two lines. Your cursor will now become invisible. You
> can only see it (a) when it is on some text of a non-default color, or
> (b) when the Emacs frame does not have focus, and the cursor is
> displayed as a hollow rectangle.
>
> "M-x set-face-background RET cursor RET white RET" fixes the problem.
> So my first guess would be that we don't do that automatically as part
> of changing the default face, for some reason.
>
I have tried this on GNU/Linux as well (Bazaar version from some time
in June) and the problem does not appear there. I can't remember it
ever happening on GNU/Linux actually.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2010-07-12 8:09 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 23+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2010-07-11 11:25 bug#6609: 23.2; Cursor becomes invisible when put over some faces Deniz Dogan
2010-07-11 13:57 ` Eli Zaretskii
2010-07-11 14:13 ` Deniz Dogan
2010-07-11 14:18 ` Eli Zaretskii
2010-07-11 14:38 ` Deniz Dogan
2010-07-11 17:48 ` Eli Zaretskii
2010-07-11 18:27 ` Deniz Dogan
2010-07-11 14:27 ` Eli Zaretskii
2010-07-11 14:38 ` Deniz Dogan
2010-07-11 17:02 ` Deniz Dogan
2010-07-11 17:20 ` Eli Zaretskii
2010-07-11 17:24 ` Deniz Dogan
2010-07-11 17:46 ` Eli Zaretskii
2010-07-11 18:24 ` Deniz Dogan
2010-07-11 19:43 ` Eli Zaretskii
2010-07-11 19:49 ` Deniz Dogan
2010-07-12 7:55 ` Eli Zaretskii
2010-07-12 8:09 ` Deniz Dogan [this message]
2010-07-12 10:35 ` Eli Zaretskii
2010-07-12 10:47 ` Deniz Dogan
2010-07-12 12:28 ` Eli Zaretskii
2010-07-13 23:43 ` Juanma Barranquero
2010-07-14 7:44 ` Eli Zaretskii
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