Package: xterm Version: 231-2 Severity: normal xterm has grown a cursor hiding feature. It has much to learn from unclutter IMHO, including: * unclutter exists. Why bloat the RSS of every individual X program with their own cursor hiding code? * Turning the cursor into a black dot is not a very good way to hide the cursor. If the cursor happens to be right over a line in a character on screen, that pixel will be turned off, which looks like a broken font. If the cursor happens to be over an inverse color character, it looks like a dead pixel. (I'm using black background obviously.) Please don't emulate dead pixels. (Unclutter makes the cursor transparent, avoiding this problem.) * If I press enter at the shell prompt, or scroll up/down in less, xterm causes the cursor to flicker each time. It looks like an old system with a non-hardware cursor. Yugh. This flashing also prevents unclutter from hiding the cursor, since it thinks it's active. * IMHO, hiding the cursor on a key press is suboptimal; the point of cursor hiding is to get it out of the way when you're reading; I don't always press a key when I'm reading. Unclutter hides the cursor after it's been idle for a second. Obviously, I'd like a way to turn this feature off.. -- System Information: Debian Release: lenny/sid APT prefers unstable APT policy: (500, 'unstable'), (500, 'testing'), (500, 'stable'), (1, 'experimental') Architecture: i386 (i686) Kernel: Linux 2.6.24-1-686 (SMP w/1 CPU core) Locale: LANG=en_US.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8) Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash Versions of packages xterm depends on: ii libc6 2.7-6 GNU C Library: Shared libraries ii libfontconfig1 2.5.0-2 generic font configuration library ii libice6 2:1.0.4-1 X11 Inter-Client Exchange library ii libncurses5 5.6+20080119-1 Shared libraries for terminal hand ii libsm6 2:1.0.3-1+b1 X11 Session Management library ii libx11-6 2:1.0.3-7 X11 client-side library ii libxaw7 2:1.0.4-1 X11 Athena Widget library ii libxext6 1:1.0.3-2 X11 miscellaneous extension librar ii libxft2 2.1.12-2 FreeType-based font drawing librar ii libxmu6 2:1.0.4-1 X11 miscellaneous utility library ii libxt6 1:1.0.5-3 X11 toolkit intrinsics library ii xbitmaps 1.0.1-2 Base X bitmaps Versions of packages xterm recommends: ii xutils 1:7.3+10 X Window System utility programs m -- no debconf information -- see shy jo
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