[rdesktop-users] Re: Invisible (black on black) mouse pointer in PuTTY window

[David S. <si...@da...>]

David Simmons wrote:

> When I run PuTTY (a window ssh client) via an rdesktop session, the 
> mouse pointer turns black inside my PuTTY window which has a black 
> background, rendering it invisible.  (Unless I move it over some text 
> so I can see the shadow.)
>
> I'm not sure if this is an issue with the way rdesktop is controlling 
> the mouse pointer, or an issue with how PuTTY is programming the Win32 
> mouse pointer.


Thanks to Thomas Mueller for providing the answer to this.  I figured I 
would post the fix here for posterity.

The I-beam mouse pointer that PuTTY uses is not rendered the same in 
rdesktop as it is in the Windows Remote Desktop client.  The workaround 
is to change the "Text Select" pointer on the Windows machine by going 
to Control Panel->Mouse->Pointers.  I changed it to the beam_r.cur 
image, which is a beefier version of the I-beam bitmap which does render 
nicely in rdesktop.

David