[XFCE 0000077]: text curser blinks while moving

[Jesse Wagner]

Well then can you explain why every other gtk2 app I've seen is able to
blink fast enough for me not to notice? XFCE4's moving blink rate seems
to be tied to it's sitting blink rate. Can't that be fixed?

On Sat, 17 Jan 2004 02:15:32 +0000 (GMT), xfce-bugs at xfce.org said:
> 
> The following bug has been RESOLVED.
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> http://bugs.xfce.org/view_bug_page.php?f_id=0000077
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> Reporter:                   GammaRay
> Handler:                    edscott
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> Project:                    XFCE
> Bug ID:                     0000077
> Category:                   xffm
> Reproducibility:            always
> Severity:                   major
> Priority:                   normal
> Status:                     resolved
> Resolution:                 not fixable
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> Date Submitted:             2004-01-15 00:50 GMT
> Last Modified:              2004-01-17 02:15 GMT
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> Summary:                    text curser blinks while moving
> Description: 
> The text curser will blink while it's moving. It's very distracting and
> gives the impression that it's flashing randomly.
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> 
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>  edscott - 2004-01-15 03:07 GMT 
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> I just checked and the text cursor in other gtk applications (namely
> evolution) does not blink while holding down the space bar. Anybody know
> how to tell gtk not to blink the cursor?
> 
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>  edscott - 2004-01-17 02:15 GMT 
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> It is a race condition between the cursor blink and callback. All gtk
> entries have the race condition, but if the callback is simple the the
> blinking occurs too rapidly to notice. The only ways to eliminate it are
> to change the blink rate or eliminate all blink. This can't be done
> (legitimately, AFAIK) in gtk.

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