Re: Odd pointer behavier

[Kevin Rodgers <ihs_4664@yahoo.com>]

Vinarsky, Boris wrote:
 > I am upgrading Linux desktopts in the department from RH 8.0 to RHEL
 > 3.0. As a side effect Emacs is upgraded from ver. 21.2.1 to
 > ver. 21.3.1.
 >
 > When the 21.3.1 emacs is starts with any backgroung except for white
 > the pointer inside emacs window takes a bold ?X? shape. It makes
 > inconvenient for users to select text.  Moving cursor to the icon bar
 > above text window fixes the cursor and it takes ?I? shape. Moving
 > cursor to the menu bar changes the shape back to ?X?. After the emacs
 > exit cursor stays X until it is pointed to another window, where it
 > becomes normal again. If the background is white the cursor is normal
 > all the time.
 >
 > I tested this issue under GNOME, KDE, and Failsafe. The result is the
 > same. Prior to testing I removed all files from home directory
 > including ~/.emacs except for .cshrc.
 >
 > Setting emacs.background X resource to any non-white color produces
 > the same result.
 >
 > Does anybody know how to get rid of this cursor ?feature? other than
 > keep the background white?

Did you try running Emacs without Red Hat's default.el and site-start.el
customizations?  i.e. emacs --no-init-file --no-site-file

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Kevin Rodgers