rg@msel.unh.edu (Roger Gonzalez) (02/21/91)
System: Monochrome Sun 3/160 running SunOS 4.1 I've built X several times now, with a copy on tape from GNU, and more recently downloaded from gateway.dec.com. On multiple tries of both copies, with cc or gcc, it has built without errors. However, there is a serious runtime bug that I can't get rid of: when I run any X program, even an initial xinit as shown in the docs, the mouse cursor often "right-shifts" whatever is underneath it. It mainly seems to happen on edges; on a right edge, the area under the mouse cursor gets moved right, onto the background, and on a left edge the background gets moved on top. It doesn't seem to matter what type of mouse cursor is in use, although the "denser" it is, the more material it seems to displace. I'm getting desperate! -Roger -- "The question of whether a computer can think is no more interesting than the question of whether a submarine can swim" - Edsgar W. Dijkstra rg@[msel|unhd].unh.edu | UNH Marine Systems Engineering Laboratory r_gonzalez@unhh.bitnet | Durham, NH 03824-3525
rg@msel.unh.edu (Roger Gonzalez) (02/21/91)
In article <1991Feb21.150129.1874@unhd.unh.edu> I said: >System: Monochrome Sun 3/160 running SunOS 4.1 > >I've built X several times now, with a copy on tape from GNU, and more >recently downloaded from gateway.dec.com. On multiple tries of both >copies, with cc or gcc, it has built without errors. However, there is >a serious runtime bug that I can't get rid of: when I run any X program, >even an initial xinit as shown in the docs, the mouse cursor often >"right-shifts" whatever is underneath it. It mainly seems to happen on >edges; on a right edge, the area under the mouse cursor gets moved >right, onto the background, and on a left edge the background gets moved >on top. It doesn't seem to matter what type of mouse cursor is in use, >although the "denser" it is, the more material it seems to displace. > I've discovered that the speed with which I drag the mouse cursor across an edge influences whether or not it gets corrupted. With maze and xeyes it doesn't take very much speed at all, but with an xterm I have to move it fairly rapidly. Advice appreciated.. -Roger -- "The question of whether a computer can think is no more interesting than the question of whether a submarine can swim" - Edsgar W. Dijkstra rg@[msel|unhd].unh.edu | UNH Marine Systems Engineering Laboratory r_gonzalez@unhh.bitnet | Durham, NH 03824-3525