Bug#466704: pointer color is always white
Some more datapoints.
On two machines running Squeeze (stable) and another running Wheezy
(testing), the '-ms' flag of xterm appears to have no effect on the
cursor. These machines all have gdm3 installed, and are running a
reasonably default Gnome desktop.
Even if I shutdown the desktop and windows manager, and run xterm on these
machines on a plain X server, the mouse pointer color is not affected by
the flag.
However, on my own desktop, which is also running Squeeze, but has
no display manager and uses fluxbox as the window manager, the '-ms' flag
works as expected (setting the color of the mouse pointer when it is over
the xterm window).
Interestingly, if I ssh into one of the machines that doesn't work as
expected (ie, piping X over ssh to my own desktop X server), the remotely
running term is stuck with a white cursor, even though its display window
is on X on my local desktop. Whereas if I run a term on another machine
(again X over ssh) that has no X server installed, I can set the color of
the xterm mouse pointer, again the display window being on my local
desktop.
It was also pointed out by Anthony Shipman that this issue does not affect
all cursor shapes. The following example worked as expected on all test
machines:
xterm -ms red -xrm 'XTerm*pointerShape: gumby'
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