On Tue, 5 Aug 2014 09:51:19 -0400 Steve Litt <sl...@troubleshooters.com> wrote:
> I've googled this several times, but none of what I saw worked or > seemed relevant. The following seemed the most relevant, but turned > out not to be helpful: > > https://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?id=137080 > > I have Wheezy running Openbox (I'm not sure how to detect Openbox's > version, but I installed it normally with apt-get). I'm *not* > running unclutter. Sometimes, my mouse pointer disappears when the > mouse pointer comes to rest on anything with popup text, which is very > obstructive (if you've ever worked on a computer that does this, you > know what I mean). > > Often, this symptom doesn't happen for the first few minutes after > starting X, but then later does. It appears not to happen in Xfce, but > I didn't test Xfce for hours, so I can't be sure. It appears not to > happen with another user (I made user test), but once again, I didn't > test user test for hours. I even copied all files from /home/slitt > to /home/test, and the symptom didn't appear, and then when I went > back to /home/test the symptom disappeared, for at least a few > minutes. > > I suspect, for not much of a reason, that the symptom is triggered > when the screen changes, either because it times out and goes blank, > or because I ran a Youtube movie full screen. Due to the time it > takes to close everything, log out, run startx, and try again, this > intermittent has been slow to investigate. It's not intermittent anymore. I can reproduce it at will. I can log out and rerun X, and do almost anything, including change screen resolution, and this symptom will not appear until I run claws-mail and cursor over a message in the message list. Once I do that, the symptom appears on [most|all] GUI programs, until I leave X and return. Interestingly, I can run Claws-Mail and cursor over buttons with popups, and the symptom doesn't appear until I've cursored over a message in the message list. In other words (laugh away, guys and gals), Claws-Mail's message list breaks my computer. Obviously I'll be submitting this to the Claws-Mail list, just in case this is a known problem. However, it will probably garner me nothing but jeers and statements that I'm using an old version of Claws-Mail (3.8.1). My apt-fu isn't all that good, so if any of you knows a way that, within the packaging system, I can install a later version of Claws-Mail without in any way disturbing my very nice Wheezy/stable installation, please let me know. Otherwise, it's ./configure;make;make install for me :-) If that doesn't work, well, I've always wanted to byte the bullet and start using mutt. Joel Rees, if you're using Claws-Mail, you should view it as a suspect. Thanks, SteveT Steve Litt * http://www.troubleshooters.com/ Troubleshooting Training * Human Performance -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: https://lists.debian.org/20140806094143.5f18c...@mydesq2.domain.cxm
