X Cursors

[Brett I. Holcomb]

I dug out an old O'Reilly X Window User's guide I had and got some hints 
on what to do but it's an old book (1998) and things have changed. 
After playing some more I think I need to add another question.

4.  How do I change the colors on the cursors?

Brett I. Holcomb wrote:
> I'm running xfce4 and wanted to change the cursors in the xterm windows. 
>  I have green on black background (yes, I miss my greenscreen terminals 
> <G>) and the pointer is a black arrow pointing up to the left side.  Of 
> course this is hard to see in my terminal window.
> 
> I've checked various man pages and jeeves and found I can do xsetroot to 
> change pointers but I have some questions
> 
> 1.  man xsetroot says there is a list of default - where do I find this 
> list?
> 
> 2.  Where do I make the changes permanent?  Do I just change the 
> /etc/X11/app-defaults/XTerm file.
> 
> 3.  I notice xfce uses a X as a pointer.  Where is that changed in xfce?
> 
> Thanks.