It took me forever to track this problem to unclutter. It was driving me crazy (the cursor blinking gave me false cues as to which window was focused and regularly caused me to begin typing in unintended windows).
Another solution might be to use a rewrite of unclutter that uses X's xfixes extensions rather than the sneaky hacks the original unclutter uses: https://github.com/Airblader/unclutter-xfixes I built and have been trying it for about a week and haven't encountered any more cursor blink weirdness. -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Desktop Packages, which is subscribed to unclutter in Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/452313 Title: Unclutter causes text input cursor to blink in unfocused windows Status in unclutter package in Ubuntu: New Bug description: When hovering the mouse cursor over a text input widget of an unfocused window, the text input cursor will start blinking in that widget when the Unclutter timeout expires. The window does not receive focus; key presses do not go to the window. Steps to reproduce: 1. Run unclutter 2. Open two Terminal windows. 3. Click one of them. 4. Hover the mouse cursor over the other Terminal until the unclutter timeout expires (5 s default). Expected result: 1. The mouse cursor disappears. Actual result: 1. The mouse cursor disappears. 2. The text input cursor starts blinking in the unfocused Terminal; the unfocused Terminal remains unfocused. The text input cursor also keeps blinking in the focused Terminal, i.e., two text input cursor are now blinking, but key presses only go the the focused one. ProblemType: Bug Architecture: amd64 Date: Thu Oct 15 18:10:44 2009 DistroRelease: Ubuntu 9.10 NonfreeKernelModules: nvidia Package: ubuntu-desktop 1.172 ProcEnviron: PATH=(custom, user) LANG=ro_RO.UTF-8 SHELL=/bin/bash ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 2.6.31-13.45-generic SourcePackage: ubuntu-meta Uname: Linux 2.6.31-13-generic x86_64 To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/unclutter/+bug/452313/+subscriptions -- Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~desktop-packages Post to : [email protected] Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~desktop-packages More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp
