How to change the mouse pointer colour?

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I am using the ample theme and I quite like it, but I can't see the mouser pointer when moving over emacs and emacs is activated; as the emacs background and the mouse pointer are black, I would like to have the mouse pointer in e.g. red.

How can I change the colour of the mouse pointer?

GNU Emacs 24.4.1 (x86_64-apple-darwin14.0.0, Carbon Version 157 AppKit 1343.14) of 2014-10-27 on Rainers-MBP-4

OS X Yosemite

I am sure I can, as the colour of the cursor changes when I move over emacs, and the colour depends on the colour theme I have chosen - my OS is OS X Yosemite by the way. — Rainer, Nov 06 '14 at 13:55

score 14 · Accepted Answer · answered Nov 06 '14 at 14:17

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Just found this, did not tried it:

(set-mouse-color "red")

answered Nov 06 '14 at 14:17

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Perfect - works perfectly. – Rainer Nov 06 '14 at 14:19
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Not completely perfect. It only affects the current frame. I haven't figured out how to set the default for all frames yet. – tbc0 Apr 29 '21 at 14:19
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@tbc0 Just add a line in `init.el` and restart all the emacs processes. – David Jung Jun 30 '22 at 04:22
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@tbc0 Or, follow nanny's answer and save it for future sessions and restart the emacs processes – David Jung Jun 30 '22 at 04:23
`(add-to-list 'default-frame-alist '(mouse-color . "white"))` handles it for new frames as well. – graywolf Nov 12 '22 at 16:43

nanny · Answer 2 · 2014-11-06T14:11:37.570

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Perhaps you want to customize the face:

M-x customize-face RET mouse RET

edited Nov 06 '14 at 14:11

answered Nov 06 '14 at 14:05

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How to change the mouse pointer colour?

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