Some more datapoints. On two machines running Squeeze (stable) and another running Wheezy (testing), the '-ms' flag of xterm appears to have no effect on the cursor. These machines all have gdm3 installed, and are running a reasonably default Gnome desktop.
Even if I shutdown the desktop and windows manager, and run xterm on these machines on a plain X server, the mouse pointer color is not affected by the flag. However, on my own desktop, which is also running Squeeze, but has no display manager and uses fluxbox as the window manager, the '-ms' flag works as expected (setting the color of the mouse pointer when it is over the xterm window). Interestingly, if I ssh into one of the machines that doesn't work as expected (ie, piping X over ssh to my own desktop X server), the remotely running term is stuck with a white cursor, even though its display window is on X on my local desktop. Whereas if I run a term on another machine (again X over ssh) that has no X server installed, I can set the color of the xterm mouse pointer, again the display window being on my local desktop. It was also pointed out by Anthony Shipman that this issue does not affect all cursor shapes. The following example worked as expected on all test machines: xterm -ms red -xrm 'XTerm*pointerShape: gumby' -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [email protected] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [email protected] Archive: http://lists.debian.org/op.wbkmojs9imrf25@blake
