Odd pointer behavier

Odd pointer behavier

[Vinarsky, Boris]

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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?
 
Thank you,
 
Boris
SysAdmin
 
 

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Re: Odd pointer behavier

[Kevin Rodgers]

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