From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Bernardo Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: Invisible mouse cursor with black background Date: Tue, 08 May 2012 22:01:41 +1000 Message-ID: <4FA90B25.2090400@pobox.com> References: Reply-To: Bernardo Bacic NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: dough.gmane.org 1336478581 1765 80.91.229.3 (8 May 2012 12:03:01 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@dough.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 8 May 2012 12:03:01 +0000 (UTC) To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Tue May 08 14:03:00 2012 Return-path: Envelope-to: geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([208.118.235.17]) by plane.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1SRj88-0003cD-6b for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Tue, 08 May 2012 14:03:00 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:47126 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1SRj87-0003un-Gu for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Tue, 08 May 2012 08:02:59 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([208.118.235.92]:50123) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1SRj81-0003ui-W1 for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Tue, 08 May 2012 08:02:55 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1SRj7v-00046h-0Z for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Tue, 08 May 2012 08:02:53 -0400 Original-Received: from a-pb-sasl-sd.pobox.com ([74.115.168.62]:63950 helo=sasl.smtp.pobox.com) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1SRj7u-00043B-O8 for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Tue, 08 May 2012 08:02:46 -0400 Original-Received: from sasl.smtp.pobox.com (unknown [127.0.0.1]) by a-pb-sasl-sd.pobox.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 66A798BFF for ; Tue, 8 May 2012 08:01:51 -0400 (EDT) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha1; c=relaxed; d=pobox.com; h=message-id :date:from:reply-to:mime-version:to:subject:references :in-reply-to:content-type:content-transfer-encoding; s=sasl; bh= H+zufh+yLSfYSuLUF8lKQ3eUfiM=; b=dRUf3NFfJ3BcBhuQfjt6xaQ681u1Q2ii 5oHonQci+dgTIngwjjEGx7pKi7Mh4v6twfyCZwq42hzgNiADexBYWFErgstyYpja rrYhjYqu6lGNk1mfJGHjqNblntFy12j8oLiv77qJWCylbJJ+bzbbL19FTJCLOOVG wTPaj4B6LoQ= DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=pobox.com; h=message-id:date :from:reply-to:mime-version:to:subject:references:in-reply-to :content-type:content-transfer-encoding; q=dns; s=sasl; b=kFqxbn rlwUskEK6ojdA2je8X6v0sWARHBggrOTBOc52526RsNd2nPidX0ympaxCzokP978 Ex10F0p6HQ/e6zJV9M7LMPvgi0xlYaF2+nwUR1q00oSFO4LvWy2JnrPkQixpHAGS xBsY2me2keC3qKSYN20KWy+RLOqGjUo+JGvDc= Original-Received: from a-pb-sasl-sd.pobox.com (unknown [127.0.0.1]) by a-pb-sasl-sd.pobox.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5EDDF8BFE for ; Tue, 8 May 2012 08:01:51 -0400 (EDT) Original-Received: from [192.168.1.10] (unknown [115.70.111.33]) (using TLSv1 with cipher DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by a-pb-sasl-sd.pobox.com (Postfix) with ESMTPSA id 116178BFD for ; Tue, 8 May 2012 08:01:46 -0400 (EDT) User-Agent: Thunderbird 2.0.0.24 (X11/20100228) In-Reply-To: X-Pobox-Relay-ID: 964BA646-9905-11E1-9F76-8BEB728A0A4D-14340206!a-pb-sasl-sd.pobox.com X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: Solaris 10 (beta) X-Received-From: 74.115.168.62 X-BeenThere: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.14 Precedence: list List-Id: Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.help:84768 Archived-At: > 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 | )) `----