Re: Pointer Color Problems
Re: Pointer Color Problems
- Subject: Re: Pointer Color Problems
- From: Eric Fielding <email@hidden>
- Date: Fri, 23 Feb 2007 08:40:35 -0800
Peter,
I have been annoyed by the yellow cursor problem ever since I got my
MacBook Pro. I remember there was a discussion about this almost a
year ago on this list, although that was before I had an Intel Mac.
It seems there is a byte-swap problem somewhere in the Apple X11
server. Perhaps the only workaround is to switch to black window
backgrounds with white text.
++Eric
On Feb 23, 2007, at 4:06 AM, Peter Collinson wrote:
Here's the scenario.
Launch X on your Mac using quartz-wm.
Open an xterm
ssh -Y to a remote Linux box (-X seems to cause Bad Window errors
and death of local client)
use Xterm (or Emacs) on the remote machine to open a window on your
screen.
On my Power PC based Mac - the X pointer color is black.
On my Intel Based Mac - the X pointer color is a faint yellow.
Attempts to set pointer color from the remote Linux box fail,
launching
xterm -xrm '*pointerColor: red'
does not change the color.
If I do the same sequence between my Macs - then the pointer color
is changed, so this is an interworking problem between my Fedora
Linux boxes and the Mac server.
I've tried setting my display to lower color resolutions.
I've tried setting the Apple depth parameter to 15 for X.
None of this makes any difference.
Now I can live with a black pointer - but the yellow one is
relatively invisible.
Is there any hope for a fix or a workaround on this one? I'll
report it to Apple bugs but my success with getting bugs fixed
using that route is not good
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