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When using black as background color the mouse cursor is almost invisible #274

Closed GoogleCodeExporter closed 8 years ago

GoogleCodeExporter commented 8 years ago 
What steps will reproduce the problem?
1. set background color to black and foreground color to white
2. (try to) select text with mouse cursor

What is the expected output? What do you see instead?

the mouse cursor should be white when selecting a dark background color. 
instead it is black and I can't hardly see where the mouse is...

What versions of mintty, Cygwin/MSYS, and Windows are you using?

cygwin 1.7.9
mintty 0.9.9
Windows 7 32 bit

Original issue reported on code.google.com by mich...@mseiwald.at on 13 Jun 2011 at 4:52

GoogleCodeExporter commented 8 years ago 
Mintty uses the system's text selection cursor, which can be chosen on the 
Pointers tab of the Mouse control panel. The default cursor changes colour 
depending on the background, i.e. it's black on a white background and white on 
a black background.

Are you using a custom mouse cursor? Or a custom theme, which often includes 
custom mouse cursors? Do you see the same issue in other applications, e.g. in 
a web browser showing a dark background?

Original comment by andy.koppe on 14 Jun 2011 at 11:34

GoogleCodeExporter commented 8 years ago 
Rejecting due to lack of further information.

Original comment by andy.koppe on 28 Jun 2011 at 7:00

GoogleCodeExporter commented 8 years ago 
I am experiencing the same issue. My cursor is the default one (Windows Aero 
Theme, in Windows 7), and it changes automatically color in other applications, 
but mintty (launched by "C:\cygwin\bin\mintty.exe -i /Cygwin-Terminal.ico -" )

cygwin setup is 2.761
mintty is 1.0.2

Original comment by alfr...@pironti.eu on 21 Nov 2011 at 5:31

GoogleCodeExporter commented 8 years ago 
No such problem here on Windows 7. Can you attach your ~/.minttyrc? A 
screenshot might be helpful too.

Are you certain it's the default pointer scheme, i.e. the so-called "Windows 
Aero (system scheme)". This can be checked on the Pointers page of the Mouse 
control panel.

Is there something like Remote Desktop or VNC involved? Any relevant third 
party utilities? Is the graphics driver up-to-date?

Black of course is mintty's default background colour, so I think there'd be 
lots of complaints if this was a general problem. That's why I'm fishing for 
something system-specific.

Original comment by andy.koppe on 21 Nov 2011 at 8:22

GoogleCodeExporter commented 8 years ago 
I can but assume that the issue has gone away somehow. I sure don't know what 
mintty could be doing wrong here, as it doesn't do anything but tell Windows to 
use the text selection cursor.

Original comment by andy.koppe on 9 Dec 2011 at 7:46

GoogleCodeExporter commented 8 years ago 
Exactly the same issue.
Mouse cursor becomes black over black mintty background.

cygwin 1.7.9
mintty 1.0.2
Windows XP SP3 Pro 32 bit

Original comment by ymarkovi...@gmail.com on 29 Dec 2011 at 2:37

GoogleCodeExporter commented 8 years ago 
My .minttyrc (note though that the effect is exactly the same _without_ 
.minttyrc at all!)

BoldAsFont=yes
Columns=120
Rows=43
FontHeight=10
FontSmoothing=partial
BackgroundColour=0,0,0

Original comment by ymarkovi...@gmail.com on 29 Dec 2011 at 2:41

GoogleCodeExporter commented 8 years ago 
Thanks for reporting the .minttyrc, but this needs more information to work out 
why this happens on some systems. See questions in comments 1 and 4.

Original comment by andy.koppe on 30 Dec 2011 at 8:21

GoogleCodeExporter commented 8 years ago 
Same problem on freshly installed WinXP

Original comment by raicho...@gmail.com on 2 Jan 2012 at 3:29

GoogleCodeExporter commented 8 years ago 
As I said before, I haven't been able to reproduce this on any of my machines, 
and there'd be many more complaints if this was a general issue. So once again, 
much more information is needed to work out why this happens on some machines.

To try to help with that, here's a more comprehensive list of questions:

1. What version of Windows are you using?
2. If using Vista or newer, have you got desktop compositing (aka Aero) enabled?
3. Are you running Windows in a virtual machine?
4. Are you using remote desktop, VNC, or anything like that?
5. Are you running any mouse or window management utilities that may play a 
role here?
6. What's your graphics card? What driver are you using for it?
7. Are you using something other than the default theme and/or mouse pointer?
8. Are you using a non-default text size (i.e dpi setting)?
9. Is the mouse pointer black or outright invisible, i.e. can it be seen 
infront of white text?
10. Does enabling or disabling transparency (on the 'Looks' tab of the options) 
make a difference?
11. Does the problem occur in web browsers, e.g. when mousing over non-link 
text on http://blackle.com?
12. Does the problem occur in other programs, e.g. over text with a black 
background in Wordpad?

Original comment by andy.koppe on 8 Jan 2012 at 8:23

GoogleCodeExporter commented 8 years ago 
Closing again. I won't reopen this without answers to the questions in comment 
10.

Original comment by andy.koppe on 29 Jan 2012 at 9:39

GoogleCodeExporter commented 8 years ago 
Same issue here.

1. Windows 7 Professional
2. No, Aero is disabled
3. Yes, VirtualBox
4., 5. No
6. VirtualBox Graphics Adapter
7., 8. No
9. just black, can be seen in front of white text
10. No
11., 12. Yes

Original comment by alexander.heinlein@web.de on 2 May 2012 at 10:57

GoogleCodeExporter commented 8 years ago 
@alexander Thanks for those answers. Your replies to 11 and 12 indicate that 
this is not a mintty-specific issue. Please report it to the VirtualBox 
community.

As a workaround, you might want to choose a different text selection cursor on 
the  Pointers tab of the Mouse control panel, or configure mintty to use a 
bright background.

Original comment by andy.koppe on 2 May 2012 at 11:20

GoogleCodeExporter commented 8 years ago 
Interestingly this seems to be a known bug in VirtualBox for about 5 years 
(http://www.virtualbox.org/ticket/750) and is caused by the mouse integration 
feature.

Original comment by alexander.heinlein@web.de on 3 May 2012 at 11:51

GoogleCodeExporter commented 8 years ago 
Thanks very much for reporting back with that link. The comments on that bug 
specifically mention PuTTY being affected, and the workaround of choosing a 
different text selection cursor in the Mouse control panel is also described 
there.

Original comment by andy.koppe on 4 May 2012 at 7:10

GoogleCodeExporter commented 8 years ago 
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GoogleCodeExporter commented 8 years ago 
I am experiencing the same issue.

1. Windows 7 Professional
2. No, as far as I know
3. No
4. rdesktop from Linux (CentOS 6)
5. No
7-8. Not as far as I know
9. Black, can be seen in front of white text
11 Yes.

Original comment by anogin@gmail.com on 23 Jan 2014 at 1:34

GoogleCodeExporter commented 8 years ago 
I found the problem that most folks are probably experiencing:

The DEFAULT Windows cursor OVER TEXT is the vertical line; of course, a 
vertical line will be VERY hard to read over a black background, as it is 
designed for the normal white backgrounds of Notepad and Write.

Simple solution - change the TEXT CURSOR from the vertical line to your choice 
of graphic pointer.

Original comment by LVLamm...@gmail.com on 10 Feb 2014 at 5:11

GoogleCodeExporter commented 8 years ago 
Thank you LVLamm... as you say, the default windows aero mouse pointer scheme 
will cause this.  I suggest changing to the Windows Black pointer schemes as 
the pointers all have a white border around the black parts making them visible 
over a black background.

Original comment by niss...@gmail.com on 5 Jun 2014 at 6:27