Do you have a fix?

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3 total messages Started by Ray Voith Fri, 18 Feb 1994 09:20

#729

Author: Ray Voith
Date: Fri, 18 Feb 1994 09:20

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I posted this before and got no response.  Maybe you can help.

I am using epoch and have the following problem:

Sometimes the cursor (not the mouse cursor) is a rectangular unfilled
box on the screen making it hard to find.  If I move the mouse to the
edge and touch the edge, the cursor fills and is easy to find.

Can I prevent it from becoming un-filled?  It seems to happen as I
change windows then come back to epoch.


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Re: Do you have a fix?

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Author: Jim.Rees
Date: Fri, 18 Feb 1994 20:50

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In article <VOITH.94Feb18092050@soccer.sps.mot.com>, voith@soccer.sps.mot.com (Ray Voith) writes:

  Sometimes the cursor (not the mouse cursor) is a rectangular unfilled
  box on the screen making it hard to find.  If I move the mouse to the
  edge and touch the edge, the cursor fills and is easy to find.

The cursor becomes unfilled when the focus is lost.  This could be a bug or
feature of your window manager.  To find out, try typing something in the
window while the cursor is unfilled, and see if your keystrokes affect that
window.  If so, you've got the focus, but the cursor didn't change, so it's
an epoch bug.  If not, you never got the focus, so it's a window manager
bug.

I haven't ever seen this behavior myself.

Re: Do you have a fix?

#734

Author: The Cola Vampire
Date: Mon, 21 Feb 1994 10:40

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In article <VOITH.94Feb18092050@soccer.sps.mot.com>, voith@soccer.sps.mot.com (Ray Voith) writes:
  Sometimes the cursor (not the mouse cursor) is a rectangular unfilled
  box on the screen making it hard to find.  If I move the mouse to the
  edge and touch the edge, the cursor fills and is easy to find.

"Jim" == Jim Rees <Jim.Rees@umich.edu> writes:
In article <2k39m8$brf@lastactionhero.rs.itd.umich.edu> Jim.Rees@umich.edu writes:

Jim> The cursor becomes unfilled when the focus is lost.  This could
Jim> be a bug or feature of your window manager.  To find out, try
Jim> typing something in the window while the cursor is unfilled, and
Jim> see if your keystrokes affect that window.  If so, you've got the
Jim> focus, but the cursor didn't change, so it's an epoch bug.  If
Jim> not, you never got the focus, so it's a window manager bug.

Jim> I haven't ever seen this behavior myself.

	The original poster did not mention what window manager they
are using, but I have seen the same problem using OpenWindows.  It was
never really irritating enough for me to look for a fix.  However, I
am relatively certain that it is not an epoch bug since I have had the
same problem with my xterms.  I always just move the mouse in an out
of the window and get on with my work, but if anyone has a fix for
this I would love to know about it.


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