On Sun, 23 Mar 2008, Martin Costabel wrote:

> Viv Kendon wrote:
> []
>> On my intel machine I tried the same trick, and it works (I'm using it 
>> right now) BUT the pointer icons are messed up.  In particular, they are 
>> mostly white, or bg colour, and thus invisible in many windows.  Some of 
>> them (the text selector in an xterm in particular) are also a few pixels to 
>> the right of where they should be.  I have tried to change the pointer 
>> icons (window manager fvwm2 config instructions) but the white/bg bits and 
>> offset persist.
>
> This is the famous "yellow cursor" bug. In the Leopard X11 (=xorg-7.2) 
> sources, the fix is here:
> <http://gitweb.freedesktop.org/?p=xorg/xserver.git;a=commitdiff;h=2c8e36ecd16bd7fea83f3adbd5bef9fef8587f44>
> In the older xorg-6.8 you are trying to build, the file to fix would be 
> xc/programs/Xserver/hw/apple/quartz-cursor.c, see the patch here:
> <http://homepage.mac.com/lycestra/yellowcursor.patch>, discussed here:
> <http://www.macosxhints.com/article.php?story=20060316124704289&query=x11>

Thanks for this.  I can't quite match it up to my situation 
though.  I did find that macosxhints article, but it seemed 
to refer to apple's X11 version, and to windows from remote 
servers, neither of which apply.  I am trying to build 
fink's xorg package, which builds XDarwin, not Xquartz.  The 
source doesn't have any quartz-cursor.c under 
xc/programs/hw, instead there is

> find . -name quartzCursor.c
./darwin/quartz/cr/quartzCursor.c
./darwin/quartz/fullscreen/quartzCursor.c
./darwin/quartz/quartzCursor.c

with rather different contents.

I didn't try going back to the Tiger X11 yet - because all 
my 10.4 debs are compiled against fink's xorg, so I'll have 
to recompile everything.  I figured if Tiger's X11 worked, 
so would fink's xorg.  And it did for ppc.  I only just got 
this intel machine + Leopard.  I kept my other intel 
machines on Tiger (and they don't run X anyway, they are 
headless and used for computational stuff).  So all my 
Leopard testing was with ppc, I didn't anticipate this sort 
of difference with intel :(

-- Viv
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Dr Viv Kendon    http://quantum.leeds.ac.uk/~viv
Quantum Information          Physics & Astronomy
                University of Leeds

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