Subject: Re: bug#8003: 23.1; Background of mouse is incorrect

From: Eli Zaretskii <[email-masked]>
Date: Mon, 30 Sep 2019 10:09:14 +0300

> From: Lars Ingebrigtsen <[email-masked]>
> Cc: [email-masked],  [email-masked]
> Date: Mon, 30 Sep 2019 06:17:47 +0200
> 
> Eli Zaretskii <[email-masked]> writes:
> 
> > Does it work to invoke Emacs with --mouse-color=white?
> 
> No, the mouse pointer remains stubbornly black with a white outline.  I
> wonder whether perhaps Gnome (or something) is overriding the mouse
> pointer.

Could be, I know almost nothing about this X stuff.

Can you at least see in GDB that x_set_mouse_color is called and does
its job of loading the requested color, when you either invoke Emacs
with --mouse-color=white or invoke the set-mouse-color function from
within a running session?