Re: Invisible mouse cursor with black background

[Bernardo <bernardo.bacic@pobox.com>]

> 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?
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| 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'.
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as for colour, i have this in my .emacs:
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| (setq default-frame-alist
|       '((foreground-color . "black")
|         (cursor-color     . "Coral")
|         ; .... other settings
|         ))
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