Fix for a miscolored X11 cursor on Intel Macs

A fix for a miscolored X11 cursor on Intel Macs

By: kumbera on Fri, Mar 2 '07 at 3:00PM PST

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.

on your intel Mac in an X11 terminal window run:
```
   ssh portal
```
where "portal" is the name of a Linux host.

After you have authenticated to portal, run the following commands:
```
   mkdir ~/.icons
   cd ~/.icons
   cp -R /usr/share/icons/HighContrast .
```
(Don't miss the '.' at the end of the previous command)
```
   ln -s HighContrast default
```

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. :-)

(Thanks to Ron Bell for finding this.)