Package: xserver-xfree86 Version: 4.3.0.dfsg.1-6 The background of the pointer on my X, using the i740 server, is not updated when the pointer moves in steps. Nor is the pointer updated, until it moves again. This means that when there is a step move, or an other sudden change (the scroll wheel makes step moves in gnome-terminal, for example. An other change is the mapping of a window under the pointer due to interactive placement), the pointer is not redrawn until it moves. When it does, there is a square below it which is filled with its old background. An especially big mess can be made when dragging a window: in that case parts of the square under the pointer are copied over themselves. As an example I made a screen shot of an xterm, which shows the background from a "change virtual desktop with hotkey, then move the mouse" situation, where I used the scrollwheel to go up and down several times, and which I dragged a little over the desktop. You can find it at: http://129.125.47.90/~shevek/desktop-bug.png Note that the computer was running GNU/Linux when this screenshot was taken, not GNU/Hurd. It is named hurd because I develop (and run) GNU/Hurd on it, but I wasn't at that moment. My XF86Config-4 is attached. This problem occurs since I upgraded to gnome 2.6, at which time I guess I also upgraded to the dfsg version of X (I got the new pointers after that upgrade anyway.) I checked, and the bug also occurs without gnome (actually, with only X and an xterm, without even a window manager.) $ uname -a Linux hurd 2.6.2 #7 Fri Feb 13 15:35:02 CET 2004 i686 GNU/Linux $ COLUMNS=200 dpkg -l | grep xserver ii xserver-common 4.3.0.dfsg.1-6 files and utilities common to all X servers ii xserver-xfree86 4.3.0.dfsg.1-6 the XFree86 X server All problems mentioned can be "solved" by forcing a redraw, for example you switching to and from a different virtual desktop. Having to do that all the time is quite annoying though. Thanks, Bas Wijnen -- I encourage sending me encrypted e-mail. Please send the central message of e-mails as plain text in the message body, not as HTML and definitely not as MS Word. Please do not use the MS Word format for attachments either. for more information, see http://129.125.47.90/e-mail.html
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