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From: rws@EXPO.LCS.MIT.EDU (Bob Scheifler)
Newsgroups: comp.windows.x
Subject: Re: R4 Sun color cursor bug
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Date: 13 Jan 90 20:17:51 GMT
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    When creating and installing a cursor with XCreatePixmapCursor()
    and XDefineCursor() on a color display, the cursor foreground and
    background colors are reversed.

Not quite a correct statement (both colors are sometimes being allocated to
the same colormap entry, actually), but there's certainly a bug.  This is a
software cursor bug (so it won't show up on servers with hardware cursors).
The guy who wrote this code clearly didn't think hard enough, I'll have to
razz him.  I haven't come up with a trivial fix, but I'll note that if the
colors have been pre-allocated read-only in the colormap, it will work right.