On Mon, 2005-01-03 at 08:08 -0500, Daniel Veillard wrote: > I have noticed that my cursor get redrawed generating cursor image flicker > even if I don't move the mouse or the underlying image doesn't change. It > didn't depend on the application having the focus, or over which the cursor > was drawn, but was depending on the cursor location on the screen. After a bit > of checking it appears to be related to virtual screen, if the cursor is > positionned at the x/y coordinate of a gnome-terminal whose content is > scrolling but not displayed due to being on another virtual screen, then > the cursor is redrawn as the terminal image is updated. Moving the cursor > coordinate outside of the terminal area stops the flicker. > > Using xorg-x11 6.8.1-12, gnome-terminal-2.7.3-1, and metacity-2.8.6-2.1, > hardware is Matrox 450 dual head running in xinerama mode. > Excerps from /var/log/Xorg.0.log: > (--) PCI:*(1:0:0) Matrox Graphics, Inc. MGA G400 AGP rev 130,... > (--) Chipset mgag400 found > (**) MGA(0): Depth 16, (--) framebuffer bpp 16 > (==) MGA(0): RGB weight 565 > (II) MGA(0): Using XFree86 Acceleration Architecture (XAA) > > Does this qualify as a bug ? If yes what module is most likely to be guilty ? Well, if your description is accurate, that would be an X server bug. It sort of sounds like something is not checking whether a window is visible before hiding the software cursor when drawing on that window. (I don't think the MGA handles alpha cursors, so the bluecurve cursor theme will give you a software cursor.) Regards, Owen
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