(OT) X pausing until mouse move (collecting commonalities)

[Coleman Kane]

Matthew Seaman wrote:
> Coleman Kane wrote:
>> Matthew Seaman wrote:
>
>>> Bingo.  Everything is nice and fast again and I don't have to wiggle 
>>> the
>>> mouse to enter text.  Unfortunately Thunderbird seems to have lost 
>>> contact
>>> with Enigmail[*] as a result of these changes and I'm sure there are 
>>> a few other
>>> things that aren't working quite right (but then I'm the old-school 
>>> type
>>> that regards a mouse as a tool used to select which xterm gets the 
>>> keyboard
>>> focus.)
>
>> Thunderbird seems to not work with enigmail for me since the upgrade 
>> to TB 2.0.0.12. The engimail people seem intent on blaming everyone 
>> else for not using "official copies" of ThunderBird, but I cannot 
>> seem to get it to work even if I follow their special directions for 
>> building the software from within mail/thunderbird/work after a new 
>> TB build/install (without running make clean). Their whole argument 
>> about this being "my fault" for using an "unofficial version" of TB 
>> smells to me, but I suppose I could always go and fix the problem 
>> myself. I don't even know what the actual error is that causes this 
>> to occur.
>
> Yeah.  The interaction between Thunderbird and Enigmail seems a bit 
> flakey
> at best.  I've seen it go out, then a few days later when I've got 
> some time
> to investigate, updating ports and recompiling everything (portupgrade 
> -fR enigmail\*)
> to ensure a good baseline --- well, that seems to bring it back.  I've
> certainly got enigmail working with 2.0.0.12 at the moment on one 
> machine,
> and it was working fine on the other with that combo too.
>
>     Cheers,
>
>     Matthew
>
amd64 or i386? I've got an amd64 system, and from what I've heard the 
problem happens more often under amd64.

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Coleman Kane