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- Mat Hostetter writes:
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- > Many Mac apps that track the cursor location make frequent calls to
- > reset the cursor bitmap, and usually they just keep resetting the
- > cursor to the same thing. In the black-and-white Executor days, we
- > would detect when the cursor bitmap wasn't really changing and avoid
- > the overhead of telling the window server to change the cursor. When
- > we added color cursor support, we no longer made that check. So the
- > end result was zillions of calls to the X server to keep (redundantly)
- > setting the cursor over and over again.
- >
- > We never noticed this problem on our machines, but apparently the
- > cursor flicker is irritating on other machines. We have fixed this
- > problem (in theory), and the fix will be present in 1.99n.
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- Cool. I must say that on my 486/DX2-66 it is quite noticeable.
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- Looking forward to 1.99n.
- PK
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