Subject: bug#14558: Setting mouse-highlight to nil prevents the cursor from changing

From: E Sabof <[email-masked]>
Date: Wed, 5 Jun 2013 04:51:44 +0100

(setq mouse-highlight nil)

The pointer will retain it's shape, whichever it was at the time the
variable was set, while in the frame. New frames will have a pointer mouse,
that will also never change.