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: changing the shape/visability of the mouse-pointer Date: Thu, 23 Jan 2003 17:28:09 -0700 Sender: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+gnu-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Message-ID: <3E308899.5060704@ihs.com> References: NNTP-Posting-Host: main.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: main.gmane.org 1043368196 25374 80.91.224.249 (24 Jan 2003 00:29:56 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@main.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Fri, 24 Jan 2003 00:29:56 +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 18brjG-0006Xt-00 for ; Fri, 24 Jan 2003 01:29:55 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.10.13) id 18brjw-0004ya-04 for gnu-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Thu, 23 Jan 2003 19:30:36 -0500 Original-Path: shelby.stanford.edu!newsfeed.stanford.edu!news-spur1.maxwell.syr.edu!news.maxwell.syr.edu!fu-berlin.de!uni-berlin.de!170.207.51.80!not-for-mail Original-Newsgroups: gnu.emacs.help Original-Lines: 18 Original-NNTP-Posting-Host: 170.207.51.80 Original-X-Trace: fu-berlin.de 1043368080 29574955 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: shelby.stanford.edu gnu.emacs.help:109397 Original-To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-BeenThere: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1b5 Precedence: list List-Id: Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor List-Help: List-Post: List-Subscribe: , List-Archive: List-Unsubscribe: , Errors-To: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+gnu-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: main.gmane.org gmane.emacs.help:5919 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.help:5919 don fisher wrote: > I do not subscribe normally to this list, so please copy me direct. Is > there any way to change the mouse pointer from XC_xterm to something > else. When I use small fonts, this cursor is hard to track/see. > > XC_sb_v_double_arrow is similar, but XC_top_left_arrow would work also. > > I can recompile the code, but I assumed there must be an easier way. > Sorry if this is a real dumb one;-) (setq x-pointer-shape x-pointer-sb-v-double-arrow) ; or x-pointer-top-left-arrow -- Kevin Rodgers