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Re: Pointer becomes invisible with XWin -multiwindow 6.7.0.0-7
- From: Alexander Gottwald <alexander dot gottwald at s1999 dot tu-chemnitz dot de>
- To: cygwin-xfree at cygwin dot com, rodmedina at cantv dot net
- Date: Mon, 3 May 2004 16:04:56 +0200 (MEST)
- Subject: Re: Pointer becomes invisible with XWin -multiwindow 6.7.0.0-7
- References: <17630-22004513135724580@cantv.net>
- Reply-to: cygwin-xfree at cygwin dot com
On Mon, 3 May 2004, Rodrigo Medina wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> I have seen in the past reports of similar bugs but, as I had not
> suffered from it before I decided to report it.
>
> The problem is the following:
> About 20% of the times that "XWin -multiwindow" is started
> the X-window pointer is not displayed, i.e. when the pointer enters an
> X-window it becomes invisible. The mouse motions are nevertheless
> properly recorded, so that, by guessing the position of the pointer,
> one may click buttons and so on. When the pointer leaves the X-windows
> and enters the Windows regions the pointer becomes visible again. The
> wrong or right behavior of the X server is mantained from the start of
> XWin to its end. I have not seen a change of behavior. The only
> occasion in which the X pointer is visible when the XWin has the wrong
> behavior is when the pointer is located in a region where a client
> window (e.g. xterm) is started; initially the pointer is visible,
> but as soon as the mouse is moved the pointer disappears.
> The appearence of the wrong behavior is quite random. I have not found
> correlations with anything. The XWin.log files are identical in both
> cases.
There have been some changes to the hardware cursor code recently. Until the
new release you can disable the windows cursor with the option "-swcursor"
bye
ago
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