From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: main.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Kevin Rodgers Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: Cursor colour Date: Thu, 26 Sep 2002 17:18:08 -0600 Sender: help-gnu-emacs-admin@gnu.org Message-ID: <3D9395B0.5070607@ihs.com> References: NNTP-Posting-Host: localhost.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: main.gmane.org 1033082783 8893 127.0.0.1 (26 Sep 2002 23:26:23 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@main.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 26 Sep 2002 23:26:23 +0000 (UTC) Return-path: Original-Received: from monty-python.gnu.org ([199.232.76.173]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 3.35 #1 (Debian)) id 17ui1V-0002JC-00 for ; Fri, 27 Sep 2002 01:26:21 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.10) id 17ui1X-0003xJ-00; Thu, 26 Sep 2002 19:26:23 -0400 Original-Path: shelby.stanford.edu!nntp.stanford.edu!newsfeed.stanford.edu!news.tele.dk!small.news.tele.dk!130.133.1.3!fu-berlin.de!uni-berlin.de!170.207.51.80!not-for-mail Original-Newsgroups: gnu.emacs.help Original-Lines: 25 Original-NNTP-Posting-Host: 170.207.51.80 Original-X-Trace: fu-berlin.de 1033082278 10501756 170.207.51.80 (16 [82742]) User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; SunOS i86pc; en-US; rv:0.9.4.1) Gecko/20020406 Netscape6/6.2.2 X-Accept-Language: en-us Original-Xref: nntp.stanford.edu gnu.emacs.help:105364 Original-To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Errors-To: help-gnu-emacs-admin@gnu.org X-BeenThere: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.0.11 Precedence: bulk List-Help: List-Post: List-Subscribe: , List-Id: Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: Xref: main.gmane.org gmane.emacs.help:1914 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.help:1914 Davide Viti wrote: > I'm not very good at customizing Emacs (lazy and not very much spare > time) but I wanted to change the colour of the cursor with the following: > > (set-cursor-color "red") > > I do get the red colour, but if I open a new frame (C-x 5 2) the cursor is > black... ... > I'm using Emacs 21.2.1 on M$ Windoze NT Here's what I put in my .Xdefaults file on Unix/X: Emacs*cursorColor: blue Emacs*pointerColor: blue Even if those resources aren't loaded into the X server via xrdb, emacs reads them, right? Does that that happen on other platforms, like Windows, as well? -- Kevin Rodgers