Bug#466704: pointer color is always white

2012-03-22 Thread Glenn McIntosh
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 win

Bug#466704: pointer color is always white

2012-03-22 Thread Glenn McIntosh
I understand what is happening now (thanks to Trent W Buck). On the current default desktop configurations, applications such as Evolution and gnome-screensaver bring in a cursor theme by default (such as dmz-cursor-theme in Squeeze). On the cursor theme, the mouse pointer colors can no lon