Bug#594856: xterm: pointer remains invisible after running aptitude

[Vincent Lefevre <vincent@vinc17.net>]

On 2010-08-30 05:02:28 -0400, Thomas Dickey wrote:
> On Mon, 30 Aug 2010, Vincent Lefevre wrote:
> this sounds like (man xterm):
> 
>        pointerMode (class PointerMode)
>                Specifies when the pointer may be hidden as the user types.  It
>                will be redisplayed if the user moves the mouse, or clicks  one
>                of its buttons.
> 
>                0  never
> 
>                1  the  application  running  in  xterm has not activated mouse
>                   mode.  This is the default.
> 
>                2  always.
> 
> (pointerMode resource was added at the beginning of 2008)

pointerMode is 2 in my case, so that when I type a key, the pointer
disappears. But the man page says: "It will be redisplayed if the
user moves the mouse", which xterm fails to do.

Note: as long as aptitude is running, the mouse pointer is redisplayed
when I move the mouse. The problem occurs after I quit aptitude.

This bug seems to be old, since I can reproduce it with xterm 251.

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