Martin Costabel wrote: [] > Concerning the issue of the semi-transparent cursor arrow, this may be a > problem of X servers rather than of build architecture:
Turns out this is indeed the case. There is a well-known endian bug in the Xquartz server on Mac/intel which has been annoying mostly people who ssh from an xterm to linux machines. There the cursor becomes yellow and hence practically invisible. This bug has been reported to Apple more than a year ago by many people, and a patch for the sources has been found. Unfortunately the fix did not make it into the big X11 update last year, making a lot of people on various mailing lists rather angry, complaining about Apple's politics in general, and this instance in particular. But as we know those boneheads, this will probably never be fixed as long as the problem concerns only some geeks who ssh into linux boxes. Someone has put a patched version of Xquartz on the web(*), and when I use that one instead of Apple's original one, the problem with the bad cursors in gcompris goes away. Maybe we could use the example of gcompris to make the boneheads give in ;-) If someone shows them how this program works with and without the patch, and that it aims not at geeks, but at children age 2-10, that it has a nice cuddly Applish look-and-feel, and music, despite coming from GNU and running in X11, then maybe, just maybe... OTOH, this is just an endian bug, so perhaps the gcompris developers could find a workaround from inside their program. (*) References: <http://www.macosxhints.com/article.php?story=20060316124704289> Apple forum: Several topics in 2006, for example <http://discussions.apple.com/thread.jspa?messageID=2561943> Archives of the x11-users list <http://www.lists.apple.com/archives/X11-users> Start a search for "yellow". -- Martin ------------------------------------------------------------------------- This SF.net email is sponsored by: Splunk Inc. Still grepping through log files to find problems? Stop. Now Search log events and configuration files using AJAX and a browser. Download your FREE copy of Splunk now >> http://get.splunk.com/ _______________________________________________ Fink-devel mailing list Fink-devel@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/fink-devel
