On Sun, Nov 17, 2024 at 08:25:33PM +0000, debian-u...@howorth.org.uk wrote: > Dan Ritter <d...@randomstring.org> wrote: > > Chris Green wrote: > > > Dan Ritter <d...@randomstring.org> wrote: > > > > Chris Green wrote: > > > > > > > > Most terminals offer the ability to change the cursor color when > > > > the cursor is in them. In the settings for xfterminal, I'm > > > > pretty sure you can set that. Go look? > > > > > > > It's not the terminal cursor so I don't think the terminal can do > > > anything aboout its colour. > > > > You might be correct, but right now, you're not expending the > > fractional effort necessary to find out. > > > > Nobody should be willing to spend more effort on solving your problem > > than you. > > That's insulting. Chris is quite right. Terminals commonly have the > means to alter some attributes of the terminal cursor, but never the X > cursor in my experience.
Note that it is the terminal (or whatever application) who "tells" X what cursor to set when moving "over" some application's window. It is in the X11 protocol. This usually results in that "I-Beam" cursor. So to decide whether it's "insulting" or Dan actually has a point, you better read up in the reference below. Dan is talking about the X "cursor" (which we better call "pointer" to avoid confusion). Nobody's talking about the term cursor. Cheers [1] https://x.org/releases/current/doc/libX11/libX11/libX11.html#Cursor_Attribute -- t
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