Mouse Trails?

[cpghost]

On 08/18/13 16:48, Gary Aitken wrote:
> On 08/17/13 19:08, cpghost wrote:
>> On 08/17/13 18:14, Walter Hurry wrote:
>>> On Sat, 17 Aug 2013 17:31:26 +0200, Polytropon wrote:
> 
>> Good ole Xeyes... ;-) But beware, xeyes crashes X server right now! Using
>>
>> xeyes-1.1.1
>> xorg-server-1.7.7_8,1
>>
>> on
>> FreeBSD 9.2-PRERELEASE #0 r253323 Sat Jul 13 21:00:32 CEST 2013 amd64
>>
>> I'm not the only one who's got X server crashes with xeyes:
>>
>> http://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-x11/2012-May/011833.html
>>
>> @Polytropon: what version of xeyes/xorg-server are you using?
> 
> pkg_info | grep xeyes
> xeyes-1.1.1         A follow the mouse X demo
> pkg_info | grep xorg-server
> xorg-server-1.7.7_8,1 X.Org X server and related programs
> 
> Works fine here, amd64.
> 
> How soon does it crash?
>   First mouse movement, program startup, or what?

At program startup.

Using fluxbox here. I'll try with another WM. Maybe it's a
WM problem?

No other programs cause X server crashes here. I must say
that it caught me by surprise!

> The behavior I see is:
>   mouse is visible
>   start typing in xterm and cursor disappears
>   xeyes comes up with eyes pointing to where cursor was
>   a second or so later the cursor reappears
>   move the cursor and eyes follow it
> 
> Gary
> 

-cpghost

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