Re: virtual terminal mouse pointer color
Mike McClain <mike.junk.46@att.net> 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.
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