From dac134fd848a1cfb3b4f8be030f6b23a965aa0e1 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Michael Peters <michael@styx>
Date: Wed, 23 Feb 2022 00:59:37 -0600
Subject: [PATCH] dynamic cursor color

---
 x.c | 19 +++++++++++++++++--
 1 file changed, 17 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

diff --git a/x.c b/x.c
index 2bfec30..8da4147 100644
--- a/x.c
+++ b/x.c
@@ -1969,6 +1969,7 @@ void
 xdrawcursor(int cx, int cy, Glyph g, int ox, int oy, Glyph og, Line line, int len)
 {
 	Color drawcol;
+	XRenderColor colbg;
 
 	/* remove the old cursor */
 	if (selected(ox, oy))
@@ -2001,10 +2002,24 @@ xdrawcursor(int cx, int cy, Glyph g, int ox, int oy, Glyph og, Line line, int le
 			g.fg = defaultfg;
 			g.bg = defaultrcs;
 		} else {
+			/** this is the main part of the dynamic cursor color patch */
+			g.bg = g.fg;
 			g.fg = defaultbg;
-			g.bg = defaultcs;
 		}
-		drawcol = dc.col[g.bg];
+
+		/**
+		 * and this is the second part of the dynamic cursor color patch.
+		 * it handles the `drawcol` variable
+		*/
+		if (IS_TRUECOL(g.bg)) {
+			colbg.alpha = 0xffff;
+			colbg.red = TRUERED(g.bg);
+			colbg.green = TRUEGREEN(g.bg);
+			colbg.blue = TRUEBLUE(g.bg);
+			XftColorAllocValue(xw.dpy, xw.vis, xw.cmap, &colbg, &drawcol);
+		} else {
+			drawcol = dc.col[g.bg];
+		}
 	}
 
 	/* draw the new one */