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bug#57264: 29.0.50; Wrong xcursor colour when over an Emacs frame
From: |
Po Lu |
Subject: |
bug#57264: 29.0.50; Wrong xcursor colour when over an Emacs frame |
Date: |
Thu, 18 Aug 2022 10:44:50 +0800 |
User-agent: |
Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/28.0.91 (gnu/linux) |
Visuwesh <visuweshm@gmail.com> writes:
> When the mouse pointer is over an Emacs frame, the xcursor has the wrong
> colour; this is not observed with other Xorg apps like okular,
> libreoffice, ungoogled-chromium.
>
> Emacs has no problem with the default Xorg cursor theme---it is black as
> expected---but this happens when I use the xcursor theme from below.
>
> To reproduce,
>
> 1. Download and install the cursor theme from
> https://π.duncano.de/files/xcursor-plan9-0.2.tar.xz
> 2. Launch emacs -Q as `XCURSOR_THEME=plan9 emacs -Q'.
> 3. Move the cursor over the Emacs frame into a void area and observe
> the left pointer colour. It is white here.
> 4. Now repeat the same but for another application, the left pointer
> colour is black as expected.
>
> Changing the mouse face's :background does not help. It changes the
> border colour. If it gives any clue, I also see this problem with st.
>
> Thanks.
Emacs is doing the right thing here, along with st, xterm, urxvt, et
cetera. The bug lies in the other programs where the cursor is mostly
black with a white border.