From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: qajaqbob@gmail.com Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: how to change mouse pointer color Date: 27 Mar 2007 18:14:39 -0700 Organization: http://groups.google.com Message-ID: <1175044479.690175.125260@b75g2000hsg.googlegroups.com> References: NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1175045883 30917 80.91.229.12 (28 Mar 2007 01:38:03 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 28 Mar 2007 01:38:03 +0000 (UTC) To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Wed Mar 28 03:37:57 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 1HWN6p-0001Fd-Cz for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Wed, 28 Mar 2007 03:37:55 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1HWN9E-00017F-Jh for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Tue, 27 Mar 2007 20:40:24 -0500 Original-Path: shelby.stanford.edu!newshub.stanford.edu!postnews.google.com!b75g2000hsg.googlegroups.com!not-for-mail Original-Newsgroups: gnu.emacs.help Original-Lines: 31 Original-NNTP-Posting-Host: 216.23.160.47 Original-X-Trace: posting.google.com 1175044481 18090 127.0.0.1 (28 Mar 2007 01:14:41 GMT) Original-X-Complaints-To: groups-abuse@google.com Original-NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 28 Mar 2007 01:14:41 +0000 (UTC) In-Reply-To: User-Agent: G2/1.0 X-HTTP-UserAgent: Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; U; Intel Mac OS X; en-US; rv:1.8.1.3) Gecko/20070309 Firefox/2.0.0.3,gzip(gfe),gzip(gfe) Complaints-To: groups-abuse@google.com Injection-Info: b75g2000hsg.googlegroups.com; posting-host=216.23.160.47; posting-account=nDdwtg0AAAC9DkZaBXPMb-aUXXcgctuL Original-Xref: shelby.stanford.edu gnu.emacs.help:146623 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:42227 Archived-At: 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" 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.