From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Eli Zaretskii Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: Cursor Invisible on Emacs / Windows Server / Citrix Date: Sun, 05 May 2013 05:52:33 +0300 Message-ID: <83txmif89a.fsf@gnu.org> References: NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1367722383 6041 80.91.229.3 (5 May 2013 02:53:03 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sun, 5 May 2013 02:53:03 +0000 (UTC) To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sun May 05 04:53:01 2013 Return-path: Envelope-to: geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([208.118.235.17]) by plane.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1UYp4O-0004hi-Tz for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Sun, 05 May 2013 04:53:01 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:38857 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1UYp4O-0005KS-Hp for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Sat, 04 May 2013 22:53:00 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([208.118.235.92]:52696) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1UYp4C-0005KJ-HJ for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sat, 04 May 2013 22:52:50 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1UYp4B-0007et-KZ for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sat, 04 May 2013 22:52:48 -0400 Original-Received: from mtaout20.012.net.il ([80.179.55.166]:33089) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1UYp4B-0007en-Ch for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sat, 04 May 2013 22:52:47 -0400 Original-Received: from conversion-daemon.a-mtaout20.012.net.il by a-mtaout20.012.net.il (HyperSendmail v2007.08) id <0MMB0010018QJP00@a-mtaout20.012.net.il> for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sun, 05 May 2013 05:52:46 +0300 (IDT) Original-Received: from HOME-C4E4A596F7 ([87.69.4.28]) by a-mtaout20.012.net.il (HyperSendmail v2007.08) with ESMTPA id <0MMB001581BYG930@a-mtaout20.012.net.il> for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sun, 05 May 2013 05:52:46 +0300 (IDT) In-reply-to: X-012-Sender: halo1@inter.net.il X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: Solaris 10 X-Received-From: 80.179.55.166 X-BeenThere: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.14 Precedence: list List-Id: Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.help:90483 Archived-At: > From: Eric Brown > Date: Sat, 04 May 2013 16:15:18 -0500 > > Eli Zaretskii writes: > > >> From: Eric Brown > >> Date: Fri, 03 May 2013 15:20:31 -0500 > >> > >> I have a very strange problem: my cursor does not show up with the > >> combination shown in the subject. However, it _does_ appear if I > >> connect to the Windows Server directly, e.g. when I am at work. > >> > >> (Also, the cursor appears in every other application but Emacs!) > > > > What is your value of w32-use-visible-system-caret? If it's non-nil, > > Emacs will not draw its cursor, but will rely on the system caret to > > show point instead. > > I have tried both: > > (setq w32-use-visible-system-caret t) > > and > > (setq w32-use-visible-system-caret nil) > > and it's the same problem. Then the only approach I can suggest is to run Emacs under a debugger and see what's going on in the function that draws the cursor. I can tell you which functions to step through. Oh, and this is no longer stuff for this list, better file a bug report with "M-x report-emacs-bug RET" and take it from there.