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A fix for a miscolored X11 cursor on Intel Macs
I have a workaround for this problem that requires no changes
to your Apple or to X11 on any system. This fixed all the problems I
was having with xterm, emacs, firefox and gimp.
1. on your intel Mac in an X11 terminal window run:
where remote_linux is the name of a Linux host.
2. After you have authenticated to remote_linux, run the following commands:
Don't miss the '.' at the end of the previous command
To verify everything is working, run 'xterm' back to your Apple display and
admire your nice easy to follow cursor. If your xterm dies with a segmentation
fault then there is a problem with the cursor tree your copied with the 'cp -R'.
When I tried to use the /usr/share/icons/locolor directory tree my xterms died with a segmentation fault.
Both /usr/share/icons/HighContrast and /usr/share/icons/mono worked for me. Please be aware that not all distributions ship with the same cursors. For example Ubuntu 6.10 didn't have mono. On all the systems I checked (Fedora, RHE, and Ubuntu) HighContrast was present in /usr/share/icons. When Apple fixes X11 you can simply do a 'rm ~/.icons/default' in your account on the Linux system and you should be back to using the system default icons. This fix was created from the clear and obvious instructions in the Xcursor man page. :-)
A fix for a miscolored X11 cursor on Intel Macs
Doesn't work for me.
A fix for a miscolored X11 cursor on Intel Macs
Sorry this was my fault. I've installed several optional icon sets on my Linux systems.
I hope a more portable set of steps on the remote linux system are: mkdir ~/.icons cd ~/.icons cp -R /usr/share/icons/hicolor . ln -s hicolor defaultIf the cp -R fails then you need to do a ls -F /usr/share/iconsand change 'hicolor' in both places in the above commands to a valid directory returned by the 'ls -F' command. (Don't use the 'default' directory in /usr/share/icons it won't work.)
A fix for a miscolored X11 cursor on Intel Macs
This worked like a charm for me, my distro in question is RHEL ES4 (nahant). Thank you for the post!
A fix for a miscolored X11 cursor on Intel Macs
I just switched from PPC to Intel and ran into the yellow-cursor problem. I am reluctant to apply the patch as it seems to undo the performance enhancements in Apple's latest X11 update, as previously posted here.
A fix for a miscolored X11 cursor on Intel Macs
I'd also be interested in an update of this ~/.icons/ hint. |
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