Vaughn Treude wrote:
> Hello everyone.
> I have a problem too strange for googling, at least I can't figure out
> how to phrase it.
>
> Recently I've been using gschem, the open-source schematic capture
> program. It definitely has its issues, but the price is right. :=) For
> the most part it works well, and I have learned to work around its
> problems. But this particular problem is driving me crazy.
>
> First of all, the gschem program appears to only support a black
> background with little white dots for grid lines. I hate this but there
> seems to be no way to change it so I tolerate it. But after using
> gschem for some time - sometimes 10 minutes, sometimes 4 hours - my
> mouse pointer suddenly changes. The white outline on the black arrow
> disappears, and the pointer becomes entirely black. For most
> applications this is no problem. But on the black background of gschem,
> I can only see the pointer when it eclipses a component - TOTALLY
> unacceptable! I did go into my desktop preferences and set the
> pointer-finder option which does a little concentric-box animation when
> you press the control key - but this doesn't make things much more
> convenient, as gschem requires you to be quite precise in grabbing
> components and lines for moving, connecting, etc. Now sometimes the
> mutant black cursor will return to normal after I exit gschem and I can
> restart the program and the pointer will be OK for a while. Other
> times I have to log out of my session and restart X. This would not be
> a big deal if the cursor didn't decide to change itself back every 15
> minutes or so, which it is quite capable of doing.
>
> I looked into changing the cursor. I tried installing gcursor, which
> can supposedly change the cursor colors to inverse, but it does not
> affect my mutant black cursor.
>
> Does anybody know a good, simple way to override the cursor color?
> (This is Centos, a clone of RHEL, so I'm not actually sure if I've got
> Gnome or KDE - probably it's some weird hybrid. :-) And, no, I will not
> change the distro, I need it to be Centos for one of my projects.)
> Also, if any of you have used gschem, is there a way to make it change
> its background color?
>
> Thanks!
>
> Vaughn
While I can't help you with your specific problem, I can recommend a good
schematic capture program.... Xcircuit
It can generate spice netlists too. I've been using it for years.
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KevinO
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