On Thu, 7 Aug 2014 11:22:57 +0900 Joel Rees <joel.r...@gmail.com> wrote:
> On Wed, Aug 6, 2014 at 10:41 PM, Steve Litt > <sl...@troubleshooters.com> wrote: > > [...] > > 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. > > > > [...] > > Joel Rees, if you're using Claws-Mail, you should view it as a > > suspect. > > I use Sylpheed for some things, Google's webmail for the list. (Lazy, > yes.) Joel, if this fits in with the way you do business, do me this favor: Log out of and restart X, and for a day or two never use Sylpheed, and see if you still get the disappearing mouse cursor. > > But I think the real bug is not in Claws, although hand-installing the > latest version of Claws may help. Be interested in what you hear from > them. > > X11 should limit the amount of damage an application can do to the > pointer, and that's what I was focusing on. > As true as that is, once we have a dead bang 100% effective reproduction sequence, I can go to the X guys and tell them "run this program and watch that happen", and they can't call me a crank or close it with "couldn't reproduce symptom". This is why I want to see if it's Sylpheed that's doing it to you. Thahnks, 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/20140807004113.33a29...@mydesq2.domain.cxm
