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From: mcoffey@aix.aix.kingston.ibm.com (Michael Coffey)
Newsgroups: comp.emacs
Subject: Re: GNU emacs and X windows
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Date: 18 Sep 90 17:08:07 GMT
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In article <15290002@hprpcd.HP.COM>, chapp@hprpcd.HP.COM (Bill Chapp) writes:
> >GNU emacs is refusing to acknowlege my .Xdefaults entries.  the
> >entries look like this:
> >
> >emacs.Cursor:			black
> >emacs.Forground:			SkyBlue
> 
> I don't think emacs will accept the Cursor color as a parameter in
.Xdefaults.
> The foreground one will work, just make sure to spell it with an `e' in it.
> (I made this same mistake with another X application and drove myself crazy
> for several hours.)
> 
> -Bill
The emacs cursor color works fine in my .Xdefaults file, however the
format of my entries look like this:
emacs*cursorColor:      Black
emacs*foreground:       Black
emacs*pointerColor:     Turquoise

I would try cursorColor in place of Cursor as you have it in your
.xdefaults entry and see if this works.

Hope this helps...
...Mike

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