forcemerge 460545 464898 kthxbye On Sat, Feb 9, 2008 at 13:03:01 -0500, Joey Hess wrote:
> Package: xterm > Version: 231-2 > Severity: normal > > xterm has grown a cursor hiding feature. It has much to learn from > unclutter IMHO, including: > > * unclutter exists. Why bloat the RSS of every individual X program with > their own cursor hiding code? > * Turning the cursor into a black dot is not a very good way to hide the > cursor. If the cursor happens to be right over a line in a character > on screen, that pixel will be turned off, which looks like a broken > font. If the cursor happens to be over an inverse color character, it > looks like a dead pixel. (I'm using black background obviously.) Please > don't emulate dead pixels. (Unclutter makes the cursor transparent, > avoiding this problem.) > * If I press enter at the shell prompt, or scroll up/down in less, > xterm causes the cursor to flicker each time. It looks like an old > system with a non-hardware cursor. Yugh. This flashing also prevents > unclutter from hiding the cursor, since it thinks it's active. > * IMHO, hiding the cursor on a key press is suboptimal; the point of > cursor hiding is to get it out of the way when you're reading; I don't > always press a key when I'm reading. Unclutter hides the cursor after > it's been idle for a second. > > Obviously, I'd like a way to turn this feature off.. > Already fixed in git for 232-1 (hiding the cursor no longer shows a dot, there is a resource to configure this, and it's disabled by default). See git://git.debian.org/git/pkg-xorg/app/xterm Cheers, Julien -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
