21.4.4 X11 cursor oddities, and changing the font for the buffers-tab

via X resources X-Mailer: VM 6.95 under 21.4 (patch 4) "Artificial Intelligence" XEmacs Lucid X-Face: &#39;pn&quot;gAx+&amp;w4-=-}\z&gt;*.Y*＠(lC;t1&lt;P);＠iwiv&#39;;)vn3H2\/.x#;&gt;J[a,/Q.Yv0^Wwc6_&quot;H]}}-&quot;?%)ETS`1v[]P`w4,E.9Bgf*XI4&lt;H{C}Mf(a)&#39;Ms)z?Bqzf&quot;8v/oY\9K){w}\pw Howdy all. Noticed what appears to be a bug with X11 cursors in 21.4.4 (compiled under Solaris 2.7 with the Forte 6.1 compiler). They seem to "stick" if you set the text-pointer-glyph and/or nontext-pointer-glyph (which is apparently done in sunpro-init.el, which is what's triggering the bug in my setup). To reproduce: env XUSERFILESEARCHPATH="" xemacs -vanilla C-x 3 [move cursor over various areas of the frame, like the separator and modeline, then back over buffer] M-: (set-glyph-image text-pointer-glyph "xterm") [move cursor from separator to right hand buffer, if cursor passes over text immediately, cursor will stay as the separator cursor "<==>" instead of changing to the I-bar "xterm" cursor] M-: (set-glyph-image nontext-pointer-glyph "xterm") [move cursor from separator to right hand buffer, if cursor passes over text immediately, cursor will stay as the separator cursor "<==>" instead of changing to the I-bar "xterm" cursor] It seems that the text-pointer-glyph is the real problem, because doing the nontext-pointer-glyph first doesn't start the problem by itself (but it doesn't take effect either, since I tried changing it to different values). Doing just the text-pointer-glyph by itself will make the cursor stick when moving over text but not nontext areas. This stuff all seems to work correctly in 21.1.14, BTW. I figured I'd bring it up here first before investigating in case anyone has already looked into this (searching the patch archives didn't turn up anything but I'm not sure that the searches were working correctly since I saw some odd behaviors when trying different searches like restricting the search to certain months not working) or in case someone would know the solution off the top of their head. If not, I'll probably look into it eventually. :) Also, I don't think that it's really sunpro-init's place to set those cursors, so here's the extremely simple patch to sunpro-init.el to stop doing that: ====================================================================== --- sunpro-init.el.orig Fri Aug 24 09:23:13 2001 +++ sunpro-init.el Fri Aug 24 09:23:51 2001 ＠＠ -35,8 +35,8 ＠＠ ;(add-hook 'before-init-hook 'sunpro-maybe-connect-to-tooltalk) -(set-glyph-image text-pointer-glyph "xterm") -(set-glyph-image nontext-pointer-glyph "xterm") +;(set-glyph-image text-pointer-glyph "xterm") +;(set-glyph-image nontext-pointer-glyph "xterm") ;; W3 doesn't know about using pageview, so let's fix that. ;; There doesn't seem to be any such function `w3-parse-mailcap' - mrb ====================================================================== And the changelog entry for that: ====================================================================== 2001-08-24 Charles Hines <hines(a)gderome.com&gt; * sunpro-init.el: Removed setting of {non}text-pointer-glyph ====================================================================== A second problem I noticed was in trying to set the font for the buffers-tab via X resources. I tried this: Emacs.buffers-tab.attributeFont: 5x8 but it didn't have any effect. This however worked: Emacs*buffers-tab.attributeFont: 5x8 but gives an (erroneous?) warning "Bad resource specification encountered". That can easily be reproduced thusly: env XUSERFILESEARCHPATH="" xemacs -vanilla -xrm 'Emacs*buffers-tab.attributeFont: 5x8' I saw in the archives that someone else encountered this quite a while ago but it was never solved. I've actually been keeping the buffers-tab turned off (along with the toolbar, I like my extra screen real estate) in my setup so it doesn't really bother me all that much, but thought I should mention the problem. Thanks, Chuck -- Charles K. Hines <ckh(a)requesttech.com&gt; <hines(a)gderome.com&gt; Principal Scientist at ReQuest Technologies Inc (http://www.ReQuestTech.com/) Martial Arts Instructor [Modern Arnis and Balintawak Escrima] "Go back to sleep, Chuck. You're just havin' a nightmare -- of course, we ARE still in Hell." (Gary Larson)