On Sun, 2004-06-13 at 17:56 -0400, Jonathan Brandmeyer wrote: > > The latest GNOME upgrades shifted /etc/alternatives/x-cursor-theme to > the high-quality Industrial theme cursors. That change exposed > one or more bugs in the way that XRender renders cursors on the > screen. > > First, the cursor will flicker whenever doing one of several drag > actions that causes the parent window to be redrawn: window resizing by > drag, resizing a window pane, and during the rendering of webpages in > Galeon or Mozilla. > > Second, when using Blender, the various OpenGL-drawn widgets are not > being updated properly when you move the mouse accross them. Also, > whenever dragging a model through some movement, there is noticable > distortion around the area covered by the mouse. > > Finally, in a simple OpenGL program that does nothing but swap its > buffers (attached), the mouse will disappear entirely when it hovers > over the window and remains still. As you move the mouse within the > window, it reappears but flickers.
Sounds like expected side effects of software cursors. If you can't live with them, don't use ARGB cursors or use a driver that supports them in hardware. -- Earthling Michel Dänzer | Debian (powerpc), X and DRI developer Libre software enthusiast | http://svcs.affero.net/rm.php?r=daenzer
