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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

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  • 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
    Commented Nov 6, 2014 at 13:55

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Reset to default
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Just found this, did not tried it:

(set-mouse-color "red")
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    Perfect - works perfectly.
    – Rainer
    Commented Nov 6, 2014 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
    Commented Apr 29, 2021 at 14:19
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    @tbc0 Just add a line in init.el and restart all the emacs processes.
    – David Jung
    Commented Jun 30, 2022 at 4:22
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    @tbc0 Or, follow nanny's answer and save it for future sessions and restart the emacs processes
    – David Jung
    Commented Jun 30, 2022 at 4:23
  • (add-to-list 'default-frame-alist '(mouse-color . "white")) handles it for new frames as well.
    – graywolf
    Commented Nov 12, 2022 at 16:43
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Perhaps you want to customize the face:

M-x customize-face RET mouse RET
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