Re: mouse arrow color in XFree-4.3

On Saturday 12 April 2003 19:10, Sven Luther wrote:
> On Sat, Apr 12, 2003 at 02:36:51PM +0200, Bernd Schubert wrote:
> > Hi,
> >
> > I hope this is the right list to ask such questions, if not please tell
> > me a better place to ask something like this ;)
>
> As said, it is not the right list.
>

I'm really sorry, I didn't read the lists description properly.

> > After I upgraded to XFree-4.3 my mouse arrow is transparent and mostly
> > white. As you can imagine a white transparent mouse arrow on an almost
> > white background doesn't give a high contrast. Before I upgraded it was
> > black on a white background. Well I guess this is controlled by the
> > application, but I'm not sure, especially since I didn't have those
> > problems before I upgraded.
>
> You can look into /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/icons/default/index.theme :
>
> [Icon Theme]
> Inherits=redglass
>
> and change the different icon themes. Currently the choices are
> redglass, whiteglass and core. There may be others in the future.

Thanks a lot, after changing it to core I can use my mouse again.

>
> That said, it is a problem of your distrib vendor, since the default
> icons are core.

Hmm not directly, its an inofficial debian woody package (I only upgraded due 
to better support of my laptop's graphics chip (i830M)). However I will 
contact the person who created the packages.

Thanks lot for your help,
	Bernd