Mouse Trails?

[Walter Hurry]

On Sun, 18 Aug 2013 18:29:23 +0200, cpghost wrote:

> 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

No problem for me since Polytropon suggested it. I'm on amd64 - WM is 
Openbox.