If I run emacs --daemon (in .xinitrc or later) and then emacsclient -c, newly created frame has black cursor color, regardless on colortheme or any other settings. More exactly, before I type anything, the cursor color is white (or other color), but with first keypresses it becomes black and cannot be changed via set-cursor-color. Both default and my custom colorthemes are black, so it makes editing very uncomfortable.
If I run emacs and M-x server-start instead of emacs --daemon then this problem does not appear. But this way I need to keep one emacs "main" frame and not kill it incidentally, this doesn't seem like a nice solution.
I have following block in .emacs.d/init.el but it doesn't help:
(set-cursor-color "red")
(setq initial-frame-alist '((cursor-color . "red")))
(setq default-frame-alist '((cursor-color . "red")))
(add-hook 'window-setup-hook '(lambda () (set-cursor-color "red")))
(add-hook 'after-make-frame-functions '(lambda (f) (with-selected-frame f (set-cursor-color "red"))))
If I run M-x describe-face RET cursor I get:
(...)
Defined in `faces.el'.
Family: unspecified
Foundry: unspecified
Width: unspecified
Height: unspecified
Weight: unspecified
Slant: unspecified
Foreground: unspecified
Background: black
Underline: unspecified
Overline: unspecified
Strike-through: unspecified
Box: unspecified
Inverse: unspecified
Stipple: unspecified
Font: unspecified
Fontset: unspecified
Inherit: unspecified
Alright.. This issue can be resolved by adding
(setq default-frame-alist '((cursor-color . "white")))though I don't understand why it was not a problem before.
See this forum thread.