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I have this problem in FC1 where if I move the mouse over aterm, the pointer becomes the "x" pointer that you usually see during loading of X window. The ...
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  1. 02-01-2004 #1
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    The "X" pointer

    I have this problem in FC1 where if I move the mouse over aterm, the pointer becomes the "x" pointer that you usually see during loading of X window. The problem is, when I drag the mouse pointer out a bit quickly, it stays that way outside the aterm window. Is there a way to disable this? It's getting quite annoying.

    Also, it sometimes becomes the magnifying glass instead of 'X'. Is this a bug?
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    Any takers? This problem is really annoying.
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    I'm not that familiar w/ aterm, but it would be in the aterm settings/config somewhere to turn that off...

    Alternative: use eterm
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    I should have mentioned, this problem is apparent in Eterm as well.
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    What about konsole (KDE) and gnome-terminal?
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    I don't recall gnome-terminal and konsole doing that. It's things like aterm and Eterm that are affected.
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    What DE are you running?

    And now a random suggestion: update aterm/eterm to the latest version?

    /me is low on ideas.
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    Yea, I am back in Debian Sarge so this problem isn't a problem anymore but I was originally thinking that the console-mouse-support might be the culprit behind it. I managed to shut that service off but I still had that problem.
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