Your message dated Tue, 19 Feb 2008 21:02:15 +0000 with message-id <E1JRZbT-00010h-O5@ries.debian.org> and subject line Bug#460545: fixed in xterm 232-1 has caused the Debian Bug report #460545, regarding suboptimal cursor hiding to be marked as done. This means that you claim that the problem has been dealt with. If this is not the case it is now your responsibility to reopen the Bug report if necessary, and/or fix the problem forthwith. (NB: If you are a system administrator and have no idea what this message is talking about, this may indicate a serious mail system misconfiguration somewhere. Please contact owner@bugs.debian.org immediately.) -- 460545: http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=460545 Debian Bug Tracking System Contact owner@bugs.debian.org with problems
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- To: Debian Bug Tracking System <submit@bugs.debian.org>
- Subject: suboptimal cursor hiding
- From: Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org>
- Date: Sat, 9 Feb 2008 13:03:01 -0500
- Message-id: <[🔎] 20080209180301.GA14912@kodama.kitenet.net>
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 joAttachment: signature.asc
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- To: 460545-close@bugs.debian.org
- Subject: Bug#460545: fixed in xterm 232-1
- From: Julien Cristau <jcristau@debian.org>
- Date: Tue, 19 Feb 2008 21:02:15 +0000
- Message-id: <E1JRZbT-00010h-O5@ries.debian.org>
Source: xterm Source-Version: 232-1 We believe that the bug you reported is fixed in the latest version of xterm, which is due to be installed in the Debian FTP archive: xterm_232-1.diff.gz to pool/main/x/xterm/xterm_232-1.diff.gz xterm_232-1.dsc to pool/main/x/xterm/xterm_232-1.dsc xterm_232-1_i386.deb to pool/main/x/xterm/xterm_232-1_i386.deb xterm_232.orig.tar.gz to pool/main/x/xterm/xterm_232.orig.tar.gz A summary of the changes between this version and the previous one is attached. Thank you for reporting the bug, which will now be closed. If you have further comments please address them to 460545@bugs.debian.org, and the maintainer will reopen the bug report if appropriate. Debian distribution maintenance software pp. Julien Cristau <jcristau@debian.org> (supplier of updated xterm package) (This message was generated automatically at their request; if you believe that there is a problem with it please contact the archive administrators by mailing ftpmaster@debian.org) -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Format: 1.7 Date: Tue, 19 Feb 2008 21:20:08 +0100 Source: xterm Binary: xterm Architecture: source i386 Version: 232-1 Distribution: unstable Urgency: low Maintainer: Debian X Strike Force <debian-x@lists.debian.org> Changed-By: Julien Cristau <jcristau@debian.org> Description: xterm - X terminal emulator Closes: 404079 459816 459817 460545 462621 464947 Changes: xterm (232-1) unstable; urgency=low . * New upstream release. + corrected logic in a font-cache used for reverse-video (closes: #404079) + allow building with configure options --disable-ansi-color and --disable-leaks (closes: #459817) + allow building with configure options --enable-wide-chars and --disable-c1-print (closes: #459816) + add pointerMode resource to control whether and when the pointer cursor is hidden as the user types; also fix it so it's really hidden instead of showing a black dot (closes: #460545) + add limit-checks to tabs.c, increase maximum column for setting tab-stops from 320 to 1024 (closes: #462621) * Set pointerMode to "never" by default, to restore pre-230 behaviour. Document that change in xterm.man (new patch 902_pointermode_never.diff). * Look for luit in /usr/bin, not /usr/X11R6/bin. * Refresh patches. * debian/control: luit is in x11-utils now, update Recommends and Description. * Add Vcs-* and Homepage fields in debian/control. Thanks, Joey Hess! (closes: #464947) Files: 28bc10a50cf0df435fbad0cc3277dd2c 974 x11 optional xterm_232-1.dsc 47cc1f1642189c8ae272b19675e86db4 853200 x11 optional xterm_232.orig.tar.gz 2114b0eda13c362d2dc8067e5517894e 62016 x11 optional xterm_232-1.diff.gz 437cb55b5ff837a7922f040e4a2d9aa4 463984 x11 optional xterm_232-1_i386.deb -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.6 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQFHuzuDmEvTgKxfcAwRAs3+AJ94L4zgXEqcUNtA6M0egohxae/1uwCgkNoY GpAmy50RG8gCFGPJLSJ/1oU= =ZcC1 -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----
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