From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: "George Nurser" Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: how to change mouse pointer color Date: Thu, 15 Mar 2007 13:05:23 +0000 Message-ID: <1d1e6ea70703150605r17256b8ft352833ebd728f3d7@mail.gmail.com> References: <1d1e6ea70703150320r1236f36bjb008ce3a4fc2559f@mail.gmail.com> <9FB98F4D-3316-402E-A4E1-0C974AE82F08@Web.DE> NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1173964077 18680 80.91.229.12 (15 Mar 2007 13:07:57 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 15 Mar 2007 13:07:57 +0000 (UTC) Cc: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org To: "Peter Dyballa" Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Thu Mar 15 14:07:49 2007 Return-path: Envelope-to: geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.50) id 1HRpgI-000334-37 for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Thu, 15 Mar 2007 14:07:46 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1HRphH-0004ko-Kf for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Thu, 15 Mar 2007 08:08:47 -0500 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1HRpf7-0001ru-FU for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Thu, 15 Mar 2007 09:06:33 -0400 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1HRpf4-0001oL-Ve for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Thu, 15 Mar 2007 09:06:31 -0400 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1HRpf4-0001oE-Qd for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Thu, 15 Mar 2007 08:06:30 -0500 Original-Received: from wr-out-0506.google.com ([64.233.184.239]) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1HRpe3-0007SN-T2 for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Thu, 15 Mar 2007 09:05:28 -0400 Original-Received: by wr-out-0506.google.com with SMTP id 76so76197wra for ; Thu, 15 Mar 2007 06:05:27 -0700 (PDT) DKIM-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=googlemail.com; s=beta; h=domainkey-signature:received:received:message-id:date:from:to:subject:cc:in-reply-to:mime-version:content-type:content-transfer-encoding:content-disposition:references; b=YMODNuI6NWf1slaZbjP31RkiukwRxYez9y3hUl0NmLD/9i8FWS1GuO34aBnXPgE7hRE3Fycevl5VCd//U8oIOWpYIwI9ajb1Hb5gEkmpIesLMqZB2iMCkXbhyGhvE7OQVhkjjGDAmDbJJHeFyMjQGyLTIt5F63qVDxhk1/JsKP0= DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=googlemail.com; s=beta; h=received:message-id:date:from:to:subject:cc:in-reply-to:mime-version:content-type:content-transfer-encoding:content-disposition:references; b=oi4I2GyFKkvbmM6VLoyu4PszeM2AZgAibhmgrYsbuUKqW/GDwwb4FOxujcad9lqXaamFhTgCbOaytxKOUmDMtJsYO+bZ4i8pricPJBdGosdCJUDnQFE6axJa3vyMwcDGH3hhoy1nUuJfoCMRDOWv4iAZOkHkslvWdWm5N8MGDvo= Original-Received: by 10.115.89.1 with SMTP id r1mr218814wal.1173963923662; Thu, 15 Mar 2007 06:05:23 -0700 (PDT) Original-Received: by 10.114.171.2 with HTTP; Thu, 15 Mar 2007 06:05:23 -0700 (PDT) In-Reply-To: <9FB98F4D-3316-402E-A4E1-0C974AE82F08@Web.DE> Content-Disposition: inline X-detected-kernel: Linux 2.4-2.6 (Google crawlbot) X-BeenThere: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Original-Sender: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Errors-To: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.help:41982 Archived-At: On 15/03/07, Peter Dyballa wrote: > > Am 15.03.2007 um 11:20 schrieb George Nurser: > > > How do I change its color? > > Via ~/.Xdefaults: > > Emacs*cursorColor: OrangeRed2 > Emacs*pointerColor: DarkOrchid4 > > or via ~/.emacs: > > (setq initial-frame-alist '( > (mouse-color . "midnightblue") Hi Pete, Changing the .emacs only seems to work on some versions of emacs. I've tried on 3 diff computers at work. 1. red hat linux, running emacs 22.0.90.2 I compiled myself: splash screen: x86_64-unknown-linux-gnu Xttolkit, Xaw3d scrollbar ....2006-11-09 Mouse pointer is yellow arrow, transparent inside when visiting emacs menu, yellow in buffers. Adding to my .emacs > (setq initial-frame-alist '( > (mouse-color . "midnightblue") doesn't make any difference. 2. red hat linux, running emacs 21.3.1 from rpm: splash screen: ia64-redhat-linux-gnu Xttolkit, Xaw3d scrollbar ... 2005-02-03 Mouse pointer is bey default solid black. Adding to my .emacs > (setq initial-frame-alist '( > (mouse-color . "midnightblue") does work. 3. red hat linux, running emacs 21.3.1 from rpm: splash screen: i386-redhat-linux-gnu Xttolkit, Xaw3d scrollbar ... 2003-05-02 as 1. Yellow pointer, can't change it. I've also tried emacs -q to make sure it's not something strange I use, and it makes no difference. Still puzzled. --George