> is it possible to do link the color > of the cursor with the color of the text or set it somewhere else? I think not. In Motif, I can't find a way to change the Text widget's cursor color. In Gtk, I would have thought you could put something like GtkTextView::cursor-color = "red" in the gtkrc file, but it seems to be ignored. (The other Snd cursors can change color because I draw them myself, but the various text widget cursors are managed by the widgets themselves)