Re: virtual terminal mouse pointer color
tomas@tuxteam.de wrote:
> On Wed, Aug 13, 2025 at 02:04:30PM +0200, Nicolas George wrote:
> > Dan Ritter (HE12025-08-13):
> > > That's correct. gpm doesn't set the pointer color.
> > >
> > > Whatever application is running on the console gets to do that,
> > > by emitting escape sequences.
> > >
> > > An article discussing what to set:
> > >
> > > http://linuxgazette.net/137/anonymous.html
> >
> > This article talks about the text cursor, not the mouse pointer managed
> > by gpm. Are you sure it is relevant in this discussion ?
> >
> > I have looked in the source of gpm, the word color seems to only appear
> > in relation to menu colors.
>
> It's the terminal program itself doing it (at least under X).
> I posted something (which I tested beforehand).
Yes, but the original requester wants something that works in
the Linux virtual console, not xterms/urxvt/gnome-term/etc.
I also looked in the gpm source, and I agree that there is nothing that sets
the color of the pointer there. It's been a decade or more since
I've used it.
-dsr-
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