From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: from mout.kundenserver.de (mout.kundenserver.de [212.227.17.13]) by sourceware.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id D9588398E468 for ; Fri, 9 Apr 2021 15:12:30 +0000 (GMT) DMARC-Filter: OpenDMARC Filter v1.3.2 sourceware.org D9588398E468 Authentication-Results: sourceware.org; dmarc=none (p=none dis=none) header.from=towo.net Authentication-Results: sourceware.org; spf=none smtp.mailfrom=towo@towo.net Received: from [192.168.178.74] ([91.65.218.78]) by mrelayeu.kundenserver.de (mreue107 [212.227.15.183]) with ESMTPSA (Nemesis) id 1MrxfX-1lsNC41Y97-00nuT6 for ; Fri, 09 Apr 2021 17:12:29 +0200 Subject: Re: X11 blinking cursor in text window like 'gvim' - only halts if moved-over another X11-win To: cygwin@cygwin.com References: <606CFC89.6030700@tlinx.org> <3a23e83c-670b-c599-b77b-18074dadf42e@dronecode.org.uk> From: Thomas Wolff Message-ID: <8decadb9-7616-d25e-0596-d82b8610daa8@towo.net> Date: Fri, 9 Apr 2021 17:12:28 +0200 User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0; Win64; x64; rv:78.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/78.9.0 MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: <3a23e83c-670b-c599-b77b-18074dadf42e@dronecode.org.uk> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Provags-ID: V03:K1:2mGVW99D21NLx4w1mZBlmgiL8YNqrYxNOGRjGh/akYuCwVe2JzF fz3nbuo1xjxe4P2lvhzQd11JiWbri0idAbBZl1Y57NkDwJJYr+S+bAeAHFDCfwX5FATXFGL WA90gzM+X9ZsOhubGc20izGb0LTMug2eEUhXtOCM0vL1viNKtEIGJ8bn3jS7ePHuNyMSxPj xsr77sbuYjMrBEEo72iRg== X-UI-Out-Filterresults: notjunk:1;V03:K0:PGsLaELGSm0=:FEPW8kC2j5YXJ1O/nuwZM8 LuUsVE2fFe1ZwDcuy67ZpYODiZVGjA0P8isWkoKdXJXZH/eYdxx1wBaIt3Bel+vvRngRwA+Ev nX3uziJaSZ9jHlqqFiagxfMCRYocm272wvAjLTSBuN3nXytQ99rlqbSSY9cRCZLNJ37FxNmWS EYe0cBDD/fYpzfRGtIU1o5i/hsJ1bUPfR69C12s6MlI4aqSXa/Oi184n9cCtXtmCIYx/8mxfu kgqF3TDOKutaPFHSujh87tZzN+WGwx1GT1z4fUSkIK9246V8jsQgyBY0MKzlGmnchwpMO/uKU KYXUh1/qlwv/xR5Vk2wds2h66kGWLqd/pIZatwFX8AQNIJKgplyGea7uwlrC9DgxxucwPzOkz 9ZoJnN6+GUTBaalmP/eYnANidTCz/khc73iRH6EQgXfFRz61hBFoq3hvOXPd1arMfLs44Ryqd kKiP8VcQRUipPTzRhn9Oa606y5l3v+U= X-Spam-Status: No, score=0.1 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00, BODY_8BITS, KAM_DMARC_STATUS, KAM_LAZY_DOMAIN_SECURITY, NICE_REPLY_A, RCVD_IN_DNSWL_NONE, RCVD_IN_MSPIKE_H2, SPF_HELO_NONE, SPF_NONE, TXREP autolearn=no autolearn_force=no version=3.4.2 X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.4.2 (2018-09-13) on server2.sourceware.org X-BeenThere: cygwin@cygwin.com X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.29 Precedence: list List-Id: General Cygwin discussions and problem reports List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Fri, 09 Apr 2021 15:12:33 -0000 Am 09.04.2021 um 16:41 schrieb Jon Turney: > On 07/04/2021 01:27, L A Walsh wrote: >> I don't recall this always being this way as I keep running into >> a problem with my input going into the wrong window. >> >> I've noted I seem to be relying on which editor(i.e. gvim) >> window in X11 has focus by noting that it has a >> blinking square cursor in the window at the cursor's >> current position in the edited text. >> >> If I move the windows cursor to another editor window in X11, >> the blinking cursor moves to the new window, but if I move >> it to a native window, the blinking doesn't stop. >> >> Has this always been this way? > > I think so, yes. > > See [1] et seq. for a discussion of what I think is the same problem, > where the Cygwin X server doesn't notify X windows of a focus loss > when the focus moves to a non-X window. Hmm, when I start xterm -bc and click out of xterm (e.g. mintty or Thunderbird), the cursor stops blinking for me. > > Unfortunately, my attempts at fixing this just introduced more > problems (see [2],[3] et seq.), and so were reverted. > > [1] https://sourceware.org/legacy-ml/cygwin/2017-04/msg00168.html > [2] https://sourceware.org/legacy-ml/cygwin/2017-04/msg00278.html > [3] https://sourceware.org/pipermail/cygwin/2017-May/232564.html > -- > Problem reports:      https://cygwin.com/problems.html > FAQ:                  https://cygwin.com/faq/ > Documentation:        https://cygwin.com/docs.html > Unsubscribe info:     https://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple