I know you said it's a bit off-topic here, but I noticed something and
thought it might be related to Tobias's question. In Konsole (and also
in mate-terminal), if I open mc (which I think is an ncurses
application), the mouse pointer changes to arrow (from the normal I-beam
thing); however it does not do so in xterm. less also uses the
alternative buffer just like mc, but does not cause the pointer to
change, so I guess it's not merely the terminal mode change that
triggers this behaviour in Konsole and mate-terminal.
Is this perhaps some feature that is missing from xterm then but exists
in Konsole/mate-terminal?
On 22/05/17 10:49, Thomas Dickey wrote:
On Mon, May 22, 2017 at 09:29:33AM +0200, Ralf Mattes wrote:
Am Montag, 22. Mai 2017 03:07 CEST, Thomas Dickey <dic...@his.com> schrieb:
On Mon, May 22, 2017 at 12:01:43AM +0200, Tobias Girstmair wrote:
Hi, I'm new here.
I am trying to build a curses based program, and I'd like to know if
there is an option to change the mouse cursor type.
The default is the text selection cursor, but I need to use the
'normal' pointer style, if that makes sense to any of you.
Is there a control sequence (or at least a command line parameter)
for this available?
man curs_set
But this sets the _cursor_. The OP asked about the _mouse pointer_. IIRC ncurses
doesn't deal with the X layer, it only operates at the terminal (emulation)
layer.
agreed - that interface is all that ncurses provides.
The "mouse pointer" in _xterm_ may be set via an X resource (unless it's
using the cursor-theme stuff). That's done via XDefineCursor().
pointerShape (class Cursor)
Specifies the name of the shape of the pointer. The default is
“xterm”.
Technically its color can be set using an escape sequence, but iirc the
required support in the X server has been broken for a long time (due to
some changes for acceleration).
By the way, being a "curses" question, it should have been directed to
bug-ncurses (xorg won't provide any useful insight).
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