Setting cursor colors in tkinter

[Edward K. Ream]

Hi,

I would like to set the foreground an background colors of a cursor.

Following:

http://www.tcl.tk/man/tcl8.3/TkLib/GetCursor.htm#M4

I am synthesizing a cursor description with

cursor="xterm " + fg + " " + bg

yielding, e.g.,

cursor = "xterm red green"

I then call:

body.configure(cursor=cursor)

However, Tcl complains:

    self.tk.call((self._w, 'configure')
TclError: bad cursor spec "xterm red green"

Can anyone say how this should properly be done?  Put another way, I may be
asking what the proper format of

"name [fgColor [bgColor]]"

is in the URL above.

Thanks.

Edward
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