sjm@moggie.anu.edu.au (Stephen Meatheringham) (06/19/91)
I am trying to change my pointer colour in OW2. I was running XWindows (R4p18) on a DECstation and that has menu items allowing the cursor colour to be set. So I changed my colour to green. This has also affected my OW colour on a SPARCstation. When I look in the .Xdefaults file the entries that seem to have changed are SM.pointer_foreground SM.pointer_background So I have tried changing them and they appear to have no effect. Are these the correct values? The OW manuals have no info., and neither do the olwm man pages. Stephen Meatheringham Mt. Stromlo Observatory CANBERRA, Australia
SALewis@lbl.gov (06/19/91)
In article <1991Jun19.034216.24417@newshost.anu.edu.au> sjm@moggie.anu.edu.au (Stephen Meatheringham) writes: >I am trying to change my pointer colour in OW2. I was running XWindows (R4p18) >on a DECstation and that has menu items allowing the cursor colour to be set. So >I changed my colour to green. This has also affected my OW colour on a SPARCstation. When I look in the .Xdefaults file the entries that seem to have changed are > >SM.pointer_foreground >SM.pointer_background > >So I have tried changing them and they appear to have no effect. Are these the correct values? The OW manuals have no info., and neither do the olwm man pages. > > Stephen Meatheringham > Mt. Stromlo Observatory > CANBERRA, Australia > By reading the source code to olvwm, you learn a lot about undocumented features of olwm! My colleages found that putting OpenWindows.cursorColor: blue in .Xdefaults changes the cursor color in those areas of the screen where olwm/olvwm itself is receiving focus, that is, in the window(s) decoration or workspace. (Notice the lower-case 'c' in the resource spelling.) Steve Lewis Computer Systems Engineering Department Bevalac Controls Group Lawrence Berkeley Lab (With thanks to Jim Guggemos and Mike Bordua)