From owner-freebsd-stable Wed Mar 6 3:40:28 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from breg.mc.mpls.visi.com (breg.mc.mpls.visi.com [208.42.156.101]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 359E937B417 for ; Wed, 6 Mar 2002 03:40:24 -0800 (PST) Received: from sheol.localdomain (hawkeyd-fw.dsl.visi.com [208.42.101.193]) by breg.mc.mpls.visi.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 296272D0415; Wed, 6 Mar 2002 05:40:23 -0600 (CST) Received: (from hawkeyd@localhost) by sheol.localdomain (8.11.6/8.11.6) id g26BeFq61761; Wed, 6 Mar 2002 05:40:15 -0600 (CST) (envelope-from hawkeyd) Date: Wed, 6 Mar 2002 05:40:15 -0600 (CST) Message-Id: <200203061140.g26BeFq61761@sheol.localdomain> Mime-Version: 1.0 X-Newsreader: knews 1.0b.1 Reply-To: hawkeyd@visi.com Organization: if (!FIFO) if (!LIFO) break; References: <20020304222236.GB7620_raggedclown.net@ns.sol.net> In-Reply-To: <20020304222236.GB7620_raggedclown.net@ns.sol.net> From: hawkeyd@visi.com (D J Hawkey Jr) Subject: Re: Mouse highlighting in latest stable X-Original-Newsgroups: sol.lists.freebsd.stable To: csfbsd@raggedclown.net, freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Sender: owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG In article <20020304222236.GB7620_raggedclown.net@ns.sol.net>, csfbsd@raggedclown.net writes: > Hello, > I have a USB mouse. > I keep pretty up to date with stable. > Since the last update, say 3 days ago I have noticed something > odd. When I highlight some text with the mouse, and then paste it, the > area of the screen where I highlighted the text remains highlighted even > when the screen changes (such as when moving through messages in mutt). > Typeing ctrl/L in mutt clears it, but it is starting to irritate me :) > > Any clues ? Conformance with the console cursor? :-) Seriously, I don't know, 4.5-REL doesn't do this in X, but this has been true of the console cursor since [at least] 4.2-REL, and I find it rather irritating, too. Dave -- Windows: "Where do you want to go today?" Linux: "Where do you want to go tomorrow?" FreeBSD: "Are you guys coming, or what?" To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message