Joachim> Then it might only work in X? That's possible, but I think that's a bug; I'm pretty sure this is expected to work on all platforms. Joachim> In 21.4, one can change the color of the mouse pointer Joachim> with that face. M-x set-face-foreground RET pointer RET red RET gives the expected result for me ("almost 21.5.24" --with-xft and some other stuff that I doubt is relevant). There are some anomolies; you do not get the requested color scheme on true widgets or the gutters (but I do get it on the toolbar and modeline, of course those are not true widgets, they're actually graphics drawn into the Emacs window). Joachim> Maybe I can change the color in that specifier? I have Joachim> not yet worked with image specifiers. Is that possible? No. It is possible to specify both colors for an XBM at the time the image is instantiated, and maybe the background for an XPM. They cannot be changed later, however, and the pointer is usually a different kind of glyph (a font glyph). Glyphs themselves do not have color attributes. Instead, they have a face attribute, which defaults to `pointer'. -- School of Systems and Information Engineering http://turnbull.sk.tsukuba.ac.jp University of Tsukuba Tennodai 1-1-1 Tsukuba 305-8573 JAPAN Ask not how you can "do" free software business; ask what your business can "do for" free software.