Bug 462262

Summary:	xemacs cursor problems
Product:	[Fedora] Fedora	Reporter:	Horst H. von Brand <vonbrand>
Component:	xemacs	Assignee:	Ville Skyttä <ville.skytta>
Status:	CLOSED RAWHIDE	QA Contact:	Fedora Extras Quality Assurance <extras-qa>
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Description Horst H. von Brand 2008-09-15 02:08:05 UTC

Description of problem:
xemacs loses the cursor sometimes: It just disapears, or gets replaced by a very thin red overline (cursor is a red rectangle), or even stays put while the "real" cursor moves around. This seems not to be xemacs' fault (oldish package, worked fine before), the closest xemacs-related install is xemacs-packages-extra

Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):
xemacs-21.5.28-9.fc10.x86_64
xemacs-packages-extra-20070427-3.fc10.noarch

How reproducible:
Often (at least once an hour with my use here: mh-e with nmh, editing mostly LaTeX with auctex and C or C++ code).

Steps to Reproduce:
1. Hard to say, seems to be related to how long xemacs has been running.
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Actual results:


Expected results:


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Comment 1 Horst H. von Brand 2008-10-31 17:26:53 UTC

This seems to have dissapeared (really an X problem?)

Comment 2 Horst H. von Brand 2008-11-24 02:58:59 UTC

Gone for good, together with other assorted X weirdness. Closing.

Comment 3 Mike Heffner 2009-05-21 14:29:13 UTC

This still appears to be a bug in:
Fedora release 9 (Sulphur)

with:

$ rpm -qa | grep xemacs
xemacs-packages-extra-20070427-2.fc9.noarch
xemacs-packages-base-20070427-1.fc8.noarch
xemacs-devel-21.5.28-6.fc9.x86_64
xemacs-21.5.28-6.fc9.x86_64
xemacs-common-21.5.28-6.fc9.x86_64


It is fairly easy to reproduce using Gnome as the WM:

- Open two files in different frames (python code for example).
- Use the Alt-Tab key-combination to switch between frames. Move the cursor
  around a bit and then switch back with Alt-Tab. The cursor will disappear even 
  though you can move around with the arrow keys and see the Line/Column numbers
  changing in the mode-line.
- Using the mouse to "click" in the other frame will bring the red cursor line
  back.

Any ideas? Currently unable to verify in F10.

Comment 4 Ville Skyttä 2009-05-21 18:12:36 UTC

I no longer have access to a F-9 box but just in case it has any effect (doubtful), a scratch build of 21.5.29 for F-9 is available at http://koji.fedoraproject.org/koji/taskinfo?taskID=1369044 in case you want to try it out.  If that doesn't fix it, it's very likely that F-9 will remain as is.

Comment 5 Mike Heffner 2009-05-21 19:16:11 UTC

(In reply to comment #4)
> I no longer have access to a F-9 box but just in case it has any effect
> (doubtful), a scratch build of 21.5.29 for F-9 is available at
> http://koji.fedoraproject.org/koji/taskinfo?taskID=1369044 in case you want to
> try it out.  If that doesn't fix it, it's very likely that F-9 will remain as
> is.  

Nope, still a problem with 21.5.29. :-/

Guess I'll have to upgrade to F-10 at some point to try again.