From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Eric Brown Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: Cursor Invisible on Emacs / Windows Server / Citrix Date: Thu, 10 Oct 2013 21:30:01 -0500 Organization: Unlimited download news at news.astraweb.com Message-ID: <87a9ig35g6.fsf@mac.com> References: NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1381458620 17662 80.91.229.3 (11 Oct 2013 02:30:20 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Fri, 11 Oct 2013 02:30:20 +0000 (UTC) To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Fri Oct 11 04:30:24 2013 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 1VUSUh-0001DA-GD for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Fri, 11 Oct 2013 04:30:23 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:52161 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1VUSUh-0008G0-2z for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Thu, 10 Oct 2013 22:30:23 -0400 X-Received: by 10.66.252.170 with SMTP id zt10mr5928217pac.34.1381458603309; Thu, 10 Oct 2013 19:30:03 -0700 (PDT) Original-Path: usenet.stanford.edu!y3no72862237pbx.0!news-out.google.com!9ni28385qaf.0!nntp.google.com!border1.nntp.dca.giganews.com!nntp.giganews.com!news.astraweb.com!border5.newsrouter.astraweb.com!not-for-mail Original-Newsgroups: gnu.emacs.help User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/24.2 (berkeley-unix) Cancel-Lock: sha1:INTG6KGxz9VKPXBnEkwILpmk7Kw= Original-Lines: 42 Original-NNTP-Posting-Host: 0d2a009b.news.astraweb.com Original-X-Trace: DXC=DRKJhgG5F\Z7HkD[4f_4]SL?0kYOcDh@ZUb[a[2aC]3]=F@>lZn:30Y3XAHGeab1XY^aFNeIRjA]_B:F9Xl^6HLSB2Je<0; EabY6QQUnWnCFBT Original-Xref: usenet.stanford.edu gnu.emacs.help:201665 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:93934 Archived-At: Eli Zaretskii writes: >> From: Eric Brown >> Date: Sat, 04 May 2013 16:15:18 -0500 >> >> Eli Zaretskii writes: >> >> >> From: Eric Brown >> >> Date: Fri, 03 May 2013 15:20:31 -0500 >> >> >> >> I have a very strange problem: my cursor does not show up with the >> >> combination shown in the subject. However, it _does_ appear if I >> >> connect to the Windows Server directly, e.g. when I am at work. >> >> >> >> (Also, the cursor appears in every other application but Emacs!) >> > >> > What is your value of w32-use-visible-system-caret? If it's non-nil, >> > Emacs will not draw its cursor, but will rely on the system caret to >> > show point instead. >> >> I have tried both: >> >> (setq w32-use-visible-system-caret t) >> >> and >> >> (setq w32-use-visible-system-caret nil) >> >> and it's the same problem. > > Then the only approach I can suggest is to run Emacs under a debugger > and see what's going on in the function that draws the cursor. I can > tell you which functions to step through. > > Oh, and this is no longer stuff for this list, better file a bug > report with "M-x report-emacs-bug RET" and take it from there. Resurrecting an old post, for the purposes of others who may have seen a similar problem. It turned out to be a problem with the Citrix color palette being set too low. When I jacked up to True Color, the cursor appeared.