From: Bernardo <bernardo.bacic@pobox.com>
To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org
Subject: Re: Invisible mouse cursor with black background
Date: Tue, 08 May 2012 22:01:41 +1000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <4FA90B25.2090400@pobox.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <DFB47E11-D154-444A-A3A2-CF9503C153C1@gmx.de>
> The mouse cursor when over text is a thin I-beam, perhaps two pixels wide, black and white. Needless to say it is almost invisible and in bright ambient light, completely invisible. How can I change the colour and/or shape of the pointer (preferably both)?
>
> I had a similar problem on the terminal and was able to replace the I-beam resource file with one I created myself. I'm hoping something similar is possible for Emacs.
did you try setting the cursor-type variable?
,----
| cursor-type is a variable defined in `C source code'.
| Its value is t
|
| Automatically becomes buffer-local when set in any fashion.
|
| Documentation:
| Cursor to use when this buffer is in the selected window.
| Values are interpreted as follows:
|
| t use the cursor specified for the frame
| nil don't display a cursor
| box display a filled box cursor
| hollow display a hollow box cursor
| bar display a vertical bar cursor with default width
| (bar . WIDTH) display a vertical bar cursor with width WIDTH
| hbar display a horizontal bar cursor with default height
| (hbar . HEIGHT) display a horizontal bar cursor with height HEIGHT
| ANYTHING ELSE display a hollow box cursor
|
| When the buffer is displayed in a non-selected window, the
| cursor's appearance is instead controlled by the variable
| `cursor-in-non-selected-windows'.
`----
as for colour, i have this in my .emacs:
,----
| (setq default-frame-alist
| '((foreground-color . "black")
| (cursor-color . "Coral")
| ; .... other settings
| ))
`----
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2012-05-07 15:07 Invisible mouse cursor with black background William Morris
2012-05-08 12:01 ` Bernardo [this message]
2012-05-08 12:13 ` Bernardo
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