I installed the jpeg libraries that you can find at
ftp://ftp.uu.net/graphics/jpeg/jpegsrc.v6b.tar.gz
It seems to have fixed my problem.
The only thing though is that I have to play with the
Command+Option+a shortkey. When I am in “Aqua mode” it
seems like my mouse pointer would still disappear as I get
over my application window but when I am in “Xdarwin mode”,
my mouse is there (my pointer never changes (for the hand
or the text cursor) though) and at least I can see it. It
is not fully convenient yet, but at least it is much better.
Thanks guys, keep up building this good knowledge base.
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I tried installing the new jpeg libraries mentioned. They
didn't seem to make any difference. I can "drag" a pointer
from my OSX desktop into GIMP to see it but when I click into
the X window the cursor vanishes. This only happens with
SOME windows in GIMP (unfortunately the image window is one}.
This is a really bad bug since it makes it practically
impossible to edit pictures in GIMP.
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I noticed it when I reinstalled that it didn't fix the
problem. I am investigation on what I did to get rid of the
problem. I am also working 100% on that since I NEED this
bug to be fixed. I will let you know as soon as I find
something.
Give me a couple more days... ;-)
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This is "fixed" in the top of the tree by having XDarwin automatically use the Mac OS X arrow cursor whenever the X11 cursor would have been invisible. This is not ideal, but is probably the best we can do without more documentation from Apple and a substantial rewrite of the Quartz hardware cursor support. Neither of these things are going to happen before XFree86 4.2 is released.
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I installed the jpeg libraries that you can find at
ftp://ftp.uu.net/graphics/jpeg/jpegsrc.v6b.tar.gz
It seems to have fixed my problem.
The only thing though is that I have to play with the
Command+Option+a shortkey. When I am in “Aqua mode” it
seems like my mouse pointer would still disappear as I get
over my application window but when I am in “Xdarwin mode”,
my mouse is there (my pointer never changes (for the hand
or the text cursor) though) and at least I can see it. It
is not fully convenient yet, but at least it is much better.
Thanks guys, keep up building this good knowledge base.
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Same thing happens with me. Has the code the code been fixed
yet to prevent this? Thanks
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I tried installing the new jpeg libraries mentioned. They
didn't seem to make any difference. I can "drag" a pointer
from my OSX desktop into GIMP to see it but when I click into
the X window the cursor vanishes. This only happens with
SOME windows in GIMP (unfortunately the image window is one}.
This is a really bad bug since it makes it practically
impossible to edit pictures in GIMP.
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Yeah,
I noticed it when I reinstalled that it didn't fix the
problem. I am investigation on what I did to get rid of the
problem. I am also working 100% on that since I NEED this
bug to be fixed. I will let you know as soon as I find
something.
Give me a couple more days... ;-)
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Two things:
1. This can happen in all GTK apps, notably Freeciv.
2. There is a workaround in GIMP. Quoting John
McNamara from the Help forum:
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I've found a work-around. Edit your gimprc file (in the
.gimp.1-2 directory) by adding this line:
(cursor-updating false)
Now I always get a standard arrow cursor which is not
ideal, but at least it's visible! If anyone else finds a
better solution please post it.
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This is "fixed" in the top of the tree by having XDarwin automatically use the Mac OS X arrow cursor whenever the X11 cursor would have been invisible. This is not ideal, but is probably the best we can do without more documentation from Apple and a substantial rewrite of the Quartz hardware cursor support. Neither of these things are going to happen before XFree86 4.2 is released.
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The interim fix of using the Aqua arrow cursor is in XDarwin 1.0.4.