From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail From: Robert Thorpe Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: Unwanted cursor and menu offset/warpage Date: Fri, 22 Sep 2017 19:44:17 +0100 Message-ID: <87zi9mh8u6.fsf@robertthorpeconsulting.com> References: NNTP-Posting-Host: blaine.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain X-Trace: blaine.gmane.org 1506105903 12129 195.159.176.226 (22 Sep 2017 18:45:03 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@blaine.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Fri, 22 Sep 2017 18:45:03 +0000 (UTC) Cc: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org To: Skip Montanaro Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Fri Sep 22 20:44:58 2017 Return-path: Envelope-to: geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([208.118.235.17]) by blaine.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.84_2) (envelope-from ) id 1dvSwT-0002Vn-Nd for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Fri, 22 Sep 2017 20:44:49 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:60595 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1dvSwb-0000mX-04 for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Fri, 22 Sep 2017 14:44:57 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:34404) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1dvSw7-0000lr-1q for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Fri, 22 Sep 2017 14:44:27 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1dvSw3-0007aT-NC for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Fri, 22 Sep 2017 14:44:27 -0400 Original-Received: from outbound-smtp08.blacknight.com ([46.22.139.13]:34299) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.0:DHE_RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA1:32) (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1dvSw3-0007Xk-FQ for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Fri, 22 Sep 2017 14:44:23 -0400 Original-Received: from mail.blacknight.com (pemlinmail03.blacknight.ie [81.17.254.16]) by outbound-smtp08.blacknight.com (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 745341C2D09 for ; Fri, 22 Sep 2017 19:44:19 +0100 (IST) Original-Received: (qmail 1763 invoked from network); 22 Sep 2017 18:44:19 -0000 Original-Received: from unknown (HELO RTLaptop) (rt@robertthorpeconsulting.com@[51.37.105.27]) by 81.17.254.9 with ESMTPSA (AES128-SHA encrypted, authenticated); 22 Sep 2017 18:44:19 -0000 In-Reply-To: (message from Skip Montanaro on Wed, 20 Sep 2017 15:39:52 -0500) X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.2.x-3.x [generic] [fuzzy] X-Received-From: 46.22.139.13 X-BeenThere: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.21 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" Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.help:114348 Archived-At: Skip Montanaro writes: > My work environment is suboptimal. I do all my work on Linux machines > (they pay me to program for that general platform). However, they see > fit to plop a Windows 7 box on my desk and I've so far been unable to > convince them to give me something more suitable. My typical Emacs > setup scenario is to use PuTTY to connect to a Linux box and run Emacs > there, with DISPLAY pointed back at the Windows thing. On that box > runs something called VcXsrv. I suggest you switch to using VNC rather than VcXsrv. At the place I work many people are in the same situation. The best solution is to setup a VNC server (most distros come with one), then install a VNC client on your MS Windows machine. Then you can do everything on the remote machine. VNC suffers from far fewer of these graphical problems. We use RealVNC, the GPL version. BR, Robert Thorpe