[PLUG] Cursor color

[Charles Schmidt]

Currently KDE3 Beta2 on SuSE 7.3. I'll try fvwm2 today and see what I get.

-----Original Message-----
From: Geoff Burling [mailto:llywrch at agora.rdrop.com] 
Sent: Thursday, March 21, 2002 5:25 PM
To: 'plug at lists.pdxlinux.org'
Subject: RE: [PLUG] Cursor color


On Thu, 21 Mar 2002, Charles Schmidt wrote:

> Hmm, I tried that but only got the "red" cursor at the end of exiting 
> X.
>
Hmm. I just re-ran the command I wrote below on my machine, & it worked as I
expected. ``xsetroot -cursor_name left_ptr -fg black" turned the cursor back
to black, too.

Which Window Manager/X environment are you using?

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Geoff Burling [mailto:llywrch at agora.rdrop.com]
> Sent: Wednesday, March 20, 2002 7:14 PM
> To: 'plug at lists.pdxlinux.org'
> Subject: RE: [PLUG] Cursor color
>
>
> On Wed, 20 Mar 2002, Charles Schmidt wrote:
>
> > That came out all messed up.
> >
> Well, I understood what you wanted.
>
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: Charles Schmidt
> > Sent: Wednesday, March 20, 2002 6:17 PM
> > To: 'plug at lists.pdxlinux.org'
> > Subject: [PLUG] Cursor color
> >
> >
> > Good evening, I have <been> unsuccessful with find<ing> what I on 
> > Google, any chance someone here knows how to change the color of the 
> > cursor in X?
> >
> Hmm. I think the magic you're looking for is hidden under ``man 
> xsetroot".
>
> When I tried the command ``xsetroot -cursor_name right_ptr -fg red", I 
> had a red cursor until I restarted the X server. (The cursor names are 
> defined in /usr/include/X11/cursorfont.h, & the bitmaps for the cursor 
> are found in
> /usr/include/X11/bitmaps.)
>
Geoff


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