Changing CDE mouse pointer properties

[Kari Keronen]

I'm trying to change CDE mouse pointer color and perhaps size, but don't
seem to find information how to do that anywhere. Is this even possible ?
Motif 1.2-5, OpenVMS Alpha 7.2-1.

-Kari-

[Christoph Gartmann]

I have a file DECW$SMB_POINTER_COLOR.DAT in my login directory. Its contents is
as follows:

sm.pointer_shape: 0
sm.pointer_foreground: #F5F5EDED0000
sm.pointer_background: #FFFF05050000
sm.versionid: 3.0

Next, I have a file DECW$SMB_POINTER.DAT :

sm.mouse_accel_denominator: -1
sm.mouse_accel_numerator: -1
sm.versionid: 3.0
sm.mouse_accel_threshold: -1
sm.pointer_button_order: right
*doubleClickDelay: 250
*multiClickTime: 250

My pointer is yellow as long as it is on the background. I hope the above is
sufficient, I don't remember how I did it.

Regards,
Christoph Gartmann

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[Kari Keronen]

This doesn't seem to work with CDE. Are you sure that CDE (not DECwindows)
even uses those files ? Both are of course Motif based, but config files
differ. In DECwindows you could change the cursor color and shape from
session manager menu, but not in CDE.

-Kari-

"Christoph Gartmann" <gart...@immunbio.mpg.de> kirjoitti
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[Christoph Gartmann]

In article <ozAda.347$143.1...@reader1.news.jippii.net>, "Kari Keronen" <kari.k...@digita.fi> writes:
>This doesn't seem to work with CDE. Are you sure that CDE (not DECwindows)
>even uses those files ? Both are of course Motif based, but config files
>differ. In DECwindows you could change the cursor color and shape from
>session manager menu, but not in CDE.

I am using CDE here and I have a yellow pointer with a red border. I figured it
out: you need
a) the DECW$SMB_POINTER_COLOR.DAT
b) in [.DT.SESSIONS] the file SESSIONETC.COM containing a single line:
$ run sys$system:decw$wsinit
I just verified it. What I didn't figure out, though is how I could change the
colour when my pointer is over a terminal window. There it is still small and
black :-(