Yellow mouse pointer (cursor) in X11 after security update

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Yellow mouse pointer (cursor) in X11 after security update

I've been using a patched version of Xquartz which fixed the problem where the mouse pointer goes pale yellow when using some remote X11 applications. (This only affected Intel Macs.)

Security update 2008-002 has installed a new Xquartz binary, which has the yellow cursor problem. I guess we'll have to wait until someone patches this again?

James

MacBook, Mac OS X (10.4.11)

Posted on Mar 20, 2008 10:33 AM

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Answer 1

Mar 21, 2008 9:25 PM in response to jilbert

HI,

This is a shot in the dark. In System Prefs/Universal Access/Mouse&Trackpad, try resetting to default values. See if that makes a difference.

Carolyn 🙂

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edthered

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Mar 25, 2008 8:25 AM in response to Carolyn Samit

Although I can't remember ever changing these settings at all, I looked anyway just to try it out. There is no 'reset to default' button on that pane, so how do you do that?

On a side note, this is really getting frustrating. I use remote X11 connections every day for almost everything I do. This is not only impacting my life, but my wallet too and I really wish that Apple would get this fixed and leave it fixed. It's doubly upsetting that the fixes exist 'in the wild' which means that someone has done the work for them if they could only pay attention. I guess I'm done with my morning rant, I'll try and figure out how to load the 'insecure' X11 again.

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Answer 3

Apr 1, 2008 4:02 AM in response to edthered

Yes, come on Apple, you are alienating plenty of ex Linux users. Can't you fix a simple byte order bug? I wasted valuable time fixing Xquartz on my work machine (10.4.11) and then it is blown away by the 002 update.

Add to this that X11 is broken under 10.5 (no cut and paste) and I am quite an unhappy bunny.

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