[7566] in Athena Bugs
vax 7.1H: emacs and/or resources
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (dryfoo@ATHENA.MIT.EDU)
Tue May 14 18:47:53 1991
From: dryfoo@ATHENA.MIT.EDU
To: bugs@ATHENA.MIT.EDU
Date: Tue, 14 May 91 18:47:25 EDT
System name: squeteague
Type and version: CVAXSTAR 7.1H
Display type: SG
What were you trying to do?
Change some color resources for Emacs. I'm trying to demo resources
hacking for this Motif course I'm teaching at WHOI.
What's wrong:
1) Though some resources like Background do work when set like this,
PointerColor doesn't seem to. The following DOES work:
% emacs -q -xrm "emacs*Background: Red" &
But this DOESN'T:
% emacs -q -xrm "emacs*PointerColor: Red" &
2) I can't find a file /usr/lib/rgb.txt:
% ls /usr/lib/r*
/usr/lib/rs1 /usr/lib/rs1r3
What should have happened:
1) Emacs should have appeared with a Red mouse pointer, but doesn't.
The mouse pointer has the default foregroung color.
2) Either the file /usr/lib/rgb.txt should exist, and list colors, or
the Emacs man page shouldn't refer to it.
Please describe any relevant documentation references:
} EMACS(1) UNIX Programmer's Manual EMACS(1)
}...
} Setting X Default Values
} ...
} PointerColor
} For color displays, sets the color of the window's
} mouse cursor. See the file /usr/lib/rgb.txt for a
} list of valid color names.
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