From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: main.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: storm@cua.dk (Kim F. Storm) Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: No atimers? Date: 17 Jul 2002 00:36:21 +0200 Sender: emacs-devel-admin@gnu.org Message-ID: <5xr8i3fggq.fsf@kfs2.cua.dk> References: <200207161329.g6GDT5S22001@aztec.santafe.edu> NNTP-Posting-Host: localhost.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: main.gmane.org 1026855393 15309 127.0.0.1 (16 Jul 2002 21:36:33 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@main.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 16 Jul 2002 21:36:33 +0000 (UTC) Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org Return-path: Original-Received: from quimby.gnus.org ([80.91.224.244]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 3.33 #1 (Debian)) id 17UZzk-0003yo-00 for ; Tue, 16 Jul 2002 23:36:32 +0200 Original-Received: from fencepost.gnu.org ([199.232.76.164]) by quimby.gnus.org with esmtp (Exim 3.12 #1 (Debian)) id 17UaAr-0001Qu-00 for ; Tue, 16 Jul 2002 23:48:01 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=fencepost.gnu.org) by fencepost.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 3.35 #1 (Debian)) id 17UZze-0001Lv-00; Tue, 16 Jul 2002 17:36:26 -0400 Original-Received: from mail.filanet.dk ([195.215.206.179]) by fencepost.gnu.org with smtp (Exim 3.35 #1 (Debian)) id 17UZz3-0001L3-00; Tue, 16 Jul 2002 17:35:49 -0400 Original-Received: from kfs2.cua.dk.cua.dk (unknown [10.1.82.3]) by mail.filanet.dk (Postfix) with SMTP id 6AB5E7C016; Tue, 16 Jul 2002 21:35:47 +0000 (GMT) Original-To: rms@gnu.org In-Reply-To: <200207161329.g6GDT5S22001@aztec.santafe.edu> Original-Lines: 32 User-Agent: Gnus/5.09 (Gnus v5.9.0) Emacs/21.3.50 Errors-To: emacs-devel-admin@gnu.org X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.0.11 Precedence: bulk List-Help: List-Post: List-Subscribe: , List-Id: Emacs development discussions. List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: Xref: main.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:5806 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.devel:5806 Richard Stallman writes: > Before debugging why my change in eval.c made the hourglass > pointer stop working, I decided to observe the bug. > I discovered that the hourglass pointer doesn't work for me at all. > start_atimer is called, and set_alarm seems to call setitimer > with the right arguments, but alarm_signal_handler is never called. > > Does anyone else using GNU/Linux observe the hourglass pointer to > work? Does it work on any system? It seems that after hitting C-g, the cursor sometimes changes to a watch and stays like that even when emacs isn't busy at all (e.g. it accepts input from the keyboard). When this happens, I typically have to move the cursor to the menu bar to make it go back to the normal cursor. Here is what I do: emacs -q --no-site-file move the mouse cursor into the emacs frame C-h l C-g After 1 second, the mouse cursor changes to a watch... -- Kim F. Storm http://www.cua.dk