apparent cursor bug

edscott wilson garcia edscott at prodigy.net.mx
Fri Aug 1 19:21:02 CEST 2003


Thanks Ric for the information. I tend to think that the problem is due
to some screwy misconfiguration on my system since it has not been up
for very long.

regards,

Edscott
On vie, 2003-08-01 at 01:40, Ric wrote:
> For what it is worth, no problems on MDK 9 using 
> #> xterm -version
> XFree86 4.2.0(166) 
> and cvs-24hrs.  It always has the "I" pointer in the window and the
> funky pointer in the scrollbar and always returns to normal when xterm
> window is closed.  
> pointerShape (class Cursor) is the vt100 Xresource; maybe
> something(RH?) is trying to change it from the default value('' xterm
> '').
> I just did  xrdb -q  to list mine and found that something has added
> the xterm*reverseWrap: true  (which is strange because it is already in
> the Xresources...).
> 
> A suggestion.  You will probably have to logout/login afterwards to
> restore settings but you can try 
> xrdb ~/.Xdefaults 
> (or wherever your .Xdefaults might be) and see if the problem goes
> away. 
> 
> HTH
> 
> --- edscott wilson garcia <edscott at prodigy.net.mx> wrote:
> > 
> > The most recent xfce4 cvs presents a weird behavior with the cursor
> > and
> > xterm. When the pointer enters xterm, it assumes different shapes,
> > like
> > if you have a gimp window open, it will assume the pointer of the
> > gimp
> > application. Sometimes it will assume the big X cursor that is
> > default
> > to X. And depending on how you exit the window, the cursor may or may
> > not return to normal. This is on redhat 9 and xfwm4. Has anybody
> > noticed
> > any similar problems or is it just me?
> > 
> > regards,
> > 
> > Edscott
> > 
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> =====
> Have A Great Day!
> 
> Ric
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