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From: rg@msel.unh.edu (Roger Gonzalez)
Newsgroups: comp.windows.x
Subject: Re: ARRRGH!  Please help!
Message-ID: <1991Feb21.152530.4158@unhd.unh.edu>
Date: 21 Feb 91 15:25:30 GMT
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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 
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