On my last machine and to an even greater extent on my new one I have a strange cursor artifact problem with the compose message box in evolution. (both machines are using a nvidia card and the non-free drivers) an 8800GT and Quadro FX500 respectively.
I think it started to occur when I started using Compiz, on my old machine it only appeared after gnome had been up for some time..on the new one it appears most of the time.
The effect is that copies of (or copies of portions of) the cursor get "stuck" in the message window. This happens most frequently when cutting or pasting text or moving the cursor position with the arrow keys but it can also happen when typing in which case the bottom few pixels of the cursor remain in previous positions within the text..also sometimes when a line wraps a copy of the cursor remains at the end. Moving the window will remove the existing ones, so I was thinking it was a graphics/windowmanager glitch but it only seems to happen in Evolution. It also appears in any screenshots I take as below.
http://digimatic.plus.com/evolution.jpg
Anyone here experienced the same problem ?
Wayne Stallwood wrote:
On my last machine and to an even greater extent on my new one I have a strange cursor artifact problem with the compose message box in evolution. (both machines are using a nvidia card and the non-free drivers) an 8800GT and Quadro FX500 respectively.
I use TB (Ubuntu) but have Compiz in common with you. Sometimes (rarely) my cursor does weird things in TB (and only TB); eg I find I can't edit a message body (have to close email and start again); the circumstances in which it happens to you feel familar although I'm not sufficiently confident to put my finger on it.
I also have Nvidia drivers, although an older card.
I have not noticed it in any other applications, although maybe there's some HMTL edit control that TB and Evolution share that we don't use elsewhere (most of the editing I do is either text-editor (Bluefish) or full WYSIWYG (OOo writer) and I can see that neither would use the same control as TB).
For me at least this link is broken (not found).
On Wed, 2008-06-04 at 18:31 +0100, Mark Rogers wrote:
I use TB (Ubuntu) but have Compiz in common with you. Sometimes (rarely) my cursor does weird things in TB (and only TB); eg I find I can't edit a message body (have to close email and start again); the circumstances in which it happens to you feel familar although I'm not sufficiently confident to put my finger on it.
Interesting, I think I am going to for the moment lay blame at compiz. Next time I get it I am going to try and turn compiz off and see if I can repeat the problem.
Disappointing that Thunderbird has potentially the same issue as it was one reason why I was considering making a switch :)
I have not noticed it in any other applications, although maybe there's some HMTL edit control that TB and Evolution share that we don't use elsewhere (most of the editing I do is either text-editor (Bluefish) or full WYSIWYG (OOo writer) and I can see that neither would use the same control as TB).
Yes same here, certainly everything else I use to work with text (even gedit) doesn't have this issue, so maybe you are right.
For me at least this link is broken (not found).
Heh yes someone on IRC pointed that out too...fixed now doh !
Thanks Wayne
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