xterm pointer resources

[David Tilbrook]

Tim Writer wrote:
> David Tilbrook <dt-hKuJ9UrQZDM at public.gmane.org> writes:
> 
> 
>>I recently was forced to upgrade to Redhat 9 (my disk crashed)
>>which has meant that I've been spending a lot of time trying
>>to recover and discover things that no longer work or need to be
>>installed.
>>
>>One problem is that my xterm pointer
>>resources no longer appear to work.
>>
>>I have settings:
>>
>>	xterm.*.pointerColor: red
>>	xterm.*.pointerColorBackground: brown
>>	xterm.*.pointerShape: xterm
>>
>>Changing the pointerShape does take affect the pointer used,
>>however, the changing the Color resources appears to do
>>nothing.
>>
>>They used to work and still do on freebsd.
>>
>>Does anyone know of other controls (e.g., other resources,
>>environment variables, files, xterm flags, etc.) that might
>>affect the pointer *Color* [sic] settings?
> 
> 
> What GUI enviroment are you using?  KDE (and I suspect GNOME) installs its
> own X resources which can conflict/override your own settings.  For example,
> in the KDE control panel "Appearance & Themes/Colors" dialog, there's a
> checkbox labled "Apply colors to non-KDE applications".  You can uncheck this
> but then you may find you have to do a lot of tweaking of other non-KDE
> apps.  Instead, I solve these kind of problems with a script like this:
> 
>     % cat .kde/Autostart/Load_Xresources
>     #!/bin/sh
>     xresources="$HOME/.Xresources"
>     # undefine predefined symbols to prevent name clashes
>     cppflags="-UELF -Ui386 -Ulinux -Uunix"
> 
>     # Remove some resources that KDE gets wrong
>     xrdb -query | egrep -v '^xterm\*background:' | xrdb -load $cppflags
> 
>     # Merge in my resources file
>     if [ -r "$xresources" ]; then
>         xrdb -merge -I$HOME $cppflags "$xresources"
>     fi
> 
> Similar techniques should work in GNOME.
> 
> HTH,
> 

I'm using fvwm2 and avoid gnome and kde if I can (call me a ludite).

The xrdb -q does show the proper settings so I assume that nothing
is changing them.

-- dt

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