Re: disappearing curser

On Mon, 2007-09-10 at 16:26 -0500, VERE SCOTT wrote:
> I too have the disappearing cursor problem with AbiWord. I too got
> AbiWord from Ubuntu but I'm running AbiWord in Windows XP. The cursor
> reappears/begins blinking once one begins typing but until then one
> has no idea if the cursor is where you clicked it to be. Most
> annoying.

Which version of AbiWord are we talking about here? 2.4.x or 2.5.x?
That's because 2.5.x respects the gtk cursor blink timeout, so if you
have it disappearing in 2.5.x, then that could be intentional.

Bye!
  Marc

> Vere Scott
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "J.M. Maurer" <uwog@uwog.net>
> Date: Monday, September 10, 2007 3:45 pm
> Subject: Re: disappearing curser
> To: squareyes <squareyes@internode.on.net>
> Cc: abiword-user@abisource.com
>
> >
> > On Fri, 2007-08-31 at 00:25 +0930, squareyes wrote:
> > > Hi,
> > > I have installed Abiword on a friends machine running Ubuntu
> > Dapper,
> > > (766processor, 256 ram )
> > > (plugged his box into my isp and downloaded from repository)
> > Tonight I
> > > received a call from him that the curser had turned into a
> > blinking spot
> > > a few pixels in diameter. Nothing will type on page. I can't
> > see what he
> > > may have done, so am unable to fix his problem. He did
> > install some new
> > > truetype fonts, I removed them and ran fc-cache -f -v . Open
> > office is
> > > still working (very slow). Am I missing something basic?
> > > Any suggestions most welcome. Thanks in advance.
> >
> > I've heard this one before, which also was on Ubuntu. At the
> > moment I
> > have no clue what could be causing this. Anyone ?
> >
> > Marc
> >
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Received on Sun Sep 16 21:25:23 2007