xterm - broken ugly cursors.

[Gordon Messmer]

Konrad Kosmowski wrote:
> On Sun, 9 Nov 2003, Konrad Kosmowski wrote:
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>>I have "problems" with xterm. It is main terminal emulator I use - just 
>>switched form RHL9 to FC1 and when i run xterm and point mouse cursor 
>>over its window the cursor gets ugly. It changes shape from nice one 
>>(Bluecurve cursor theme) to some ugly pixelated cursors. What can be 
>>problem here? It looks like it tries to change cursor shape into another 
>>but it can't find a proper bitmap (from Bluecurve theme) and the cursor 
>>gets messed up. Cursor is switching back to normal when I move it over 
>>Mozilla.
> 
> 
> I've noticed that it only happens in reversed color mode (-rv). Try 
> running:

I see the same thing with GNU emacs.  Switching to KDE doesn't seem to 
fix the problem, so it's probably not a problem in the window manager. 
Beyond that, I don't have much.