Hi all, I have seen in the past reports of similar bugs but, as I had not suffered from it before I decided to report it.
The problem is the following:
About 20% of the times that "XWin -multiwindow" is started
the X-window pointer is not displayed, i.e. when the pointer enters an
X-window it becomes invisible. The mouse motions are nevertheless
properly recorded, so that, by guessing the position of the pointer,
one may click buttons and so on. When the pointer leaves the X-windows
and enters the Windows regions the pointer becomes visible again. The
wrong or right behavior of the X server is mantained from the start of
XWin to its end. I have not seen a change of behavior. The only
occasion in which the X pointer is visible when the XWin has the wrong
behavior is when the pointer is located in a region where a client
window (e.g. xterm) is started; initially the pointer is visible,
but as soon as the mouse is moved the pointer disappears.
The appearence of the wrong behavior is quite random. I have not found
correlations with anything. The XWin.log files are identical in both
cases.
I hope that this information could be useful.
Bye
Rodrigo Medina
XWin.log
Description: XWin.log
Cygwin Win95/NT Configuration Diagnostics
Current System Time: Mon May 03 08:58:22 2004
Windows 95 Ver 4.0 Build 1111
Path: .\
~\bin
c:\Rodrigo\bin
C:\cygwin\usr\X11R6\bin
C:\cygwin\bin
c:\WINDOWS
c:\WINDOWS\COMMAND
C:\cygwin\USR\LOCAL\BIN
c:\ADABAS\BIN
c:\ADABAS\PGM
c:\ARCHIV~1\GRISOFT\AVG6
Output from C:\cygwin\bin\id.exe (nontsec)
UID: 56503(rmedina) GID: 544(users)
544(users)
Output from C:\cygwin\bin\id.exe (ntsec)
UID: 56503(rmedina) GID: 544(users)
544(users)
SysDir: C:\WINDOWS\SYSTEM
WinDir: C:\WINDOWS
HOME = `C:\cygwin\home\rmedina'
LIBRARY_PATH = `/usr/X11R6/lib:/usr/local/lib'
MAKE_MODE = `unix'
PWD = `/home/rmedina/XWin_man/bug'
USER = `rmedina'
HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Cygnus Solutions
HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Cygnus Solutions\Cygwin
HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Cygnus Solutions\Cygwin\mounts v2
(default) = `/cygdrive'
cygdrive flags = 0x00000022
HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Cygnus Solutions\Cygwin\Program Options
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Cygnus Solutions
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Cygnus Solutions\Cygwin
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Cygnus Solutions\Cygwin\mounts v2
(default) = `/cygdrive'
cygdrive flags = 0x00000022
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Cygnus Solutions\Cygwin\mounts v2\/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts
(default) = `C:\cygwin\usr\X11R6\lib\X11\fonts'
flags = 0x0000000a
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Cygnus Solutions\Cygwin\mounts v2\/
(default) = `C:/cygwin'
flags = 0x0000000a
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Cygnus Solutions\Cygwin\mounts v2\/usr/bin
(default) = `C:/cygwin/bin'
flags = 0x0000000a
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Cygnus Solutions\Cygwin\mounts v2\/usr/lib
(default) = `C:/cygwin/lib'
flags = 0x0000000a
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Cygnus Solutions\Cygwin\Program Options
a: fd N/A N/A
c: hd FAT32 3069Mb 79% CP UN
d: hd FAT32 6137Mb 16% CP UN
e: cd N/A N/A
f: cd N/A N/A
. /cygdrive user binmode,cygdrive
C:\cygwin\usr\X11R6\lib\X11\fonts /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts system binmode
C:/cygwin / system binmode
C:/cygwin/bin /usr/bin system binmode
C:/cygwin/lib /usr/lib system binmode
. /cygdrive system binmode,cygdrive
Found: C:\cygwin\bin\awk.exe
Found: C:\cygwin\bin\bash.exe
Found: C:\cygwin\bin\cat.exe
Found: C:\cygwin\bin\cp.exe
Found: C:\cygwin\bin\cpp.exe
Found: C:\cygwin\bin\find.exe
Found: c:\WINDOWS\COMMAND\find.exe
Found: C:\cygwin\bin\gcc.exe
Found: C:\cygwin\bin\gdb.exe
Found: C:\cygwin\bin\grep.exe
Found: C:\cygwin\bin\ld.exe
Found: C:\cygwin\bin\ls.exe
Found: C:\cygwin\bin\make.exe
Found: C:\cygwin\bin\mv.exe
Found: C:\cygwin\bin\rm.exe
Found: C:\cygwin\bin\sed.exe
Not Found: sh
Found: C:\cygwin\bin\tar.exe
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Cygwin DLL version info:
DLL version: 1.5.10
DLL epoch: 19
DLL bad signal mask: 19005
DLL old termios: 5
DLL malloc env: 28
API major: 0
API minor: 114
Shared data: 4
DLL identifier: cygwin1
Mount registry: 2
Cygnus registry name: Cygnus Solutions
Cygwin registry name: Cygwin
Program options name: Program Options
Cygwin mount registry name: mounts v2
Cygdrive flags: cygdrive flags
Cygdrive prefix: cygdrive prefix
Cygdrive default prefix:
Build date: Fri Apr 30 14:00:08 EDT 2004
Snapshot date: 20040430-13:53:12
Shared id: cygwin1S4
Cygwin Package Information
Package Version
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