Excerpts from Simon Schampijer's message of 2011-10-18 17:37:17 +0200: > As stated in the ticket Metacity sets the cursor after > it's startup, so we need to make sure Metacity is already > running before we set the cursor. This is what the current > code has been doing. We do show the intro screen before > the window manager may be available. For a non invasive > bug fix that avoids races we just call 'xsetroot -cursor_name' > another time before the intro screen is displayed. > > We have a long history of setting the Sugar cursor with many > races. To improve the situation SL #3204 is filed as a > follow up. [...]
A slightly different version of this patch (cosmetical changes only) was ack'ed by me on #sugar and pushed as 7ca64e37 [1] (master) resp. 9a4e66c [2] (sucrose-0.94). Sascha [1] https://git.sugarlabs.org/sugar/mainline/commit/7ca64e37d190e569b9bc356094db4b72e0241419 [2] https://git.sugarlabs.org/sugar/mainline/commit/9a4e66ceed9694df02af801b7bab52ad402e2416 -- http://sascha.silbe.org/ http://www.infra-silbe.de/
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