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?

i must be tired, just realised the question is about the *mouse* pointer


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

(mouse-color . "Coral")
should work above

for the shape have a look at
M-: (info "(Elisp)Pointer Shape")