Mike McClain <[email protected]> writes: > I've searched 'man gpm', 'man setterm' but found nothing relating to > pointer color on a text teminal. > I've searched the web for 'mouse color', 'pointer color' and anything > I could think of for a couple of hours only to only find how to change > the pointer in Xm mostly using 'Gnome tweeks' or something like that. > If anyone could point me where to find something talking about the > mouse pointer in a VT I'd appreciate it. > I'm running bookworm on a Raspberry PI4b using gpm for the mouse.
Late response but looks like GPM typically uses color index 7 for the mouse cursor. So if you change that, it changes the cursor color but then text color will also change. I just tried with echo -e "\e]P700ff00" in VT (on a PC) and I got a green mouse cursor. Text color changed to green as well.
