[comp.windows.x] phantom xterm text cursors

lwv27@CAS.BITNET (Larry W. Virden ext. 2487) (06/12/91)

OpenWindows 2.0, SunOS 4.1.1, MIT X11R4 Patch 18 xterm

When I have a xterm on the screen, I get an increasing number
of 'no-focus' type text cursors.  That is, when I first leave
the xterm window, my text cursor turns hollow.  The longer the
xterm remains - especially if the xterm is 'under' one or more
other windows, there are randomly placed hollow text cursors
scattered all over the screen.

Has anyone else seen this behavior and know what can be done
to fix it?

Refreshing the screen makes the phantoms go away - but I
would like to eliminate them altogether.

Also, I have been told that last fall or longer ago someone
posted a mod to xterm so that text that wrapped around two or
more lines was treated as a single line.  Does anyone have
this modification?
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matt@saber.COM (06/13/91)

> OpenWindows 2.0, SunOS 4.1.1, MIT X11R4 Patch 18 xterm
> 
> When I have a xterm on the screen, I get an increasing number
> of 'no-focus' type text cursors.

Yup, this is a common problem.  I've never figured out how to get around
it, but if you start your xterms with the -ah flag, xterm won't try to 
use the hollow cursor when it loses focus, and you won't see the phantom
cursors all over the screen.