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Re: virtual terminal mouse pointer color



On Tue, Aug 12, 2025 at 05:29:24PM -0500, Mike McClain wrote:
> I've searched 'man gpm', 'man setterm' but found nothing relating to
> pointer color on a text teminal.

That depends on your window system *and* on your terminal.

For X and xterm, respectively, there is an X resource, pointerColor,
you can set. E.g. put this in your ~/.Xresources (make sure it is
loaded by your X setup):

xterm*pointerColor:  green

If you want it to take effect right away, issue "xrdb -merge ~/.Xresources"
or equivalent. Note that it will only affect newly started xterms.

Xterm has also one start option to set that resource for the invoked
instance. Try:

  xterm -ms goldenrod

It's all in the xterm man page.

For other terminals, or for non-X windowing systems... sorry, no
clue.

Cheers
-- 
t

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