xterm pointer resources

[Tim Writer]

David Tilbrook <dt-hKuJ9UrQZDM at public.gmane.org> writes:

> 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.

According to the docs, xterm is the default pointer shape.  Just wondering if
you've tried other shapes to confirm the pointerShape resource is working.

> >>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.

[snipped stuff about fixing resources in KDE]

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

No, I can understand why.

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

I just tried setting the pointer colour on my laptop (Debian woody with
XFree86 4.3.0 and xterm 4.3.0) and it doesn't work.  I also tried setting it
in a running xterm using editres which also doesn't work.  It does work
though on my desktop (Debian woody with XFree86 4.1.0 and xterm 4.1.0) so it
appears to be a bug in recent xterm.

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