[email protected] wrote: > On Wed, Aug 13, 2025 at 02:04:30PM +0200, Nicolas George wrote: > > Dan Ritter (HE12025-08-13): > > > That's correct. gpm doesn't set the pointer color. > > > > > > Whatever application is running on the console gets to do that, > > > by emitting escape sequences. > > > > > > An article discussing what to set: > > > > > > http://linuxgazette.net/137/anonymous.html > > > > This article talks about the text cursor, not the mouse pointer managed > > by gpm. Are you sure it is relevant in this discussion ? > > > > I have looked in the source of gpm, the word color seems to only appear > > in relation to menu colors. > > It's the terminal program itself doing it (at least under X). > I posted something (which I tested beforehand).
Yes, but the original requester wants something that works in the Linux virtual console, not xterms/urxvt/gnome-term/etc. I also looked in the gpm source, and I agree that there is nothing that sets the color of the pointer there. It's been a decade or more since I've used it. -dsr-
