Re: how to change mouse pointer color -- solved.

Re: how to change mouse pointer color -- solved.

[George Nurser]

Problem (sort of) solved.
There is apparently a well known bug in Apple's X11 for Intel that
causes this problem on *all* X11 applications run remotely on Linux.

see
http://www.macosxhints.com/article.php?story=20060316124704289
or
http://lists.apple.com/archives/x11-users/2007/Feb/msg00065.html

There are two solutions.

1. Replace /usr/X11R6/bin/Xquartz by the Xquartz at
http://www.astro.princeton.edu/~cloomis/Xquartz
[the one you get from untarring
http://www.ssec.wisc.edu/~rayg/pub/xfix.tar.gz is an older version]
so:

cd
curl -O http://www.astro.princeton.edu/~cloomis/Xquartz
cd /usr/X11R6/bin/
sudo mv Xquartz old_ Xquartz
sudo cp ~/Xquartz .

2. follow the hint given by Kumbera (last in first page of comments,
in the comments to
http://www.macosxhints.com/article.php?story=20060316124704289)

This involves changing the icon used by the Linux host you are logging onto.
It's probably preferable if it works for you, but I tried method 1.,
it works, so I'm happy.

Hopefully the bug will be fixed in Leopard anyway.

--George Nurser.

On 27 Mar 2007 18:14:39 -0700, qajaqbob@gmail.com <qajaqbob@gmail.com> wrote:
> I have the same problem.  Standard emacs methods of changing the mouse
> pointer color have no effect.
>
> I think it's a problem specific to running emacs under X11, displaying
> to a Mac X11 server.  Not sure why though.
>
> My current workaround is to change the emacs background color to
> "lightblue1".  It's enough contrast to make the yellow pointer show
> up, but light enough otherwise.
>
> emacs --background-color=lightblue1
>
>
>
>
>
> On Mar 15, 3:20 am, "George Nurser" <gnur...@googlemail.com> wrote:
> > I am using  v22.0.90.2 of emacs on a linux host, viewed on a Mac
> > through X11. It is giving me a yellow mouse pointer
> > [hand/arrow/ibeam]. As I use a white background this is not working
> > well.
> >
> > I tried adding
> > (set-mouse-color "black")
> > to my .emacs, both at the end and beginning but it seems to have no effect.
> >
> > How do I change its color?
> >
> > George Nurser.