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 22:13:53 +1000 Message-ID: <4FA90E01.2080007@pobox.com> References: <4FA90B25.2090400@pobox.com> Reply-To: bernardo.bacic@pobox.com 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 1336479262 7246 80.91.229.3 (8 May 2012 12:14:22 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@dough.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 8 May 2012 12:14:22 +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 14:14:18 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 1SRjJ3-0007YF-Sr for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Tue, 08 May 2012 14:14:18 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:51970 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1SRjJ3-00075q-4D for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Tue, 08 May 2012 08:14:17 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([208.118.235.92]:58906) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1SRjIu-000759-9H for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Tue, 08 May 2012 08:14:12 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1SRjIl-0000vq-Uw for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Tue, 08 May 2012 08:14:07 -0400 Original-Received: from a-pb-sasl-sd.pobox.com ([74.115.168.62]:50810 helo=sasl.smtp.pobox.com) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1SRjIl-0000sV-LI for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Tue, 08 May 2012 08:13:59 -0400 Original-Received: from sasl.smtp.pobox.com (unknown [127.0.0.1]) by a-pb-sasl-sd.pobox.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 512268CA2 for ; Tue, 8 May 2012 08:13:57 -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= rguOF4NmceKw+0uwrnSlDpJSolE=; b=fWgQiuisyJnUh36ysy6V7e1ZZGbpbeZJ FjLVpj0a6vvE/bVmQuRs+QZuA62oLWAMfYoDZXid416dJny/GHCfIpjNvFHWgcCT PqG72NdFLsRsverySEamG61/ldmdGqhM1RLkFDlqHCXKCsuIf7TAo7VLMlxZ6qb5 bssP/kHJAiI= 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=wmLH+z AH9mefbT2on0gaYltiSK5dabKXkClZraYq5+sNT6KIDRntUUd0nD8E0eC9NfZ/Je KwycU8NrSuTp85Hbw4lPMxPGjDY30zAslYpXO0bDAXYIbOw1VCAO54BVelSKMIrr xxLc/tYHFn1kARFvbX3w2yblCgKN/G02+29CY= 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 4ADC48CA0 for ; Tue, 8 May 2012 08:13:57 -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 740088C9F for ; Tue, 8 May 2012 08:13:56 -0400 (EDT) User-Agent: Thunderbird 2.0.0.24 (X11/20100228) In-Reply-To: <4FA90B25.2090400@pobox.com> X-Pobox-Relay-ID: 490E3B12-9907-11E1-9234-8BEB728A0A4D-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:84769 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? 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")