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From: keith@EXPO.LCS.MIT.EDU (Keith Packard)
Newsgroups: comp.windows.x
Subject: Re: X server implementation problems.
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Date: 6 Sep 90 18:18:50 GMT
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> 1. The BW2 sun server (code based on the unix sun server as distributed)
>    makes the mouse cursor disappear if a new window is opened where the
>    mouse currently is. Moving the mouse will make it reappear. I assume
>    this problem is somewhere in the mi stuff (since that seems to be used to
>    make the cursor disappear and appear again) but I don't have a clue where to
>    look.

The cursor reappears when miSpriteBlockHandler is called from BlockHandler
which is called from WaitForSomething just before select is called to await
additional data from the network.