GNOME Bugzilla – Bug 150279
No cursor at text insertion point on win32
Last modified: 2004-12-22 21:47:04 UTC
The cursor sometimes won't appear when inserting text with gaim in win32. The original post to the gaim bugtracker follows. Gaim dev's say this is gtk+ so i'm posting the bug here. As posted by "Mike Stockman - mstockman" in gaim's bugtracker... "Win32 no cursor at text insertion point This bug used to be present (see <http://sourceforge.net/tracker/index.php?func=detail&aid=874637&group_id=235&atid=100235> but was fixed earlier this year... now, with the installation of gaim v0.80, no flashing insertion point appears when I'm typing messages to buddies. This is not a big deal while typing, but is a huge deal when editing before sending."
Oops, here is a link to the gaim bug... https://sourceforge.net/tracker/?func=detail&atid=100235&aid=994002&group_id=235
Presumably related to the focus event generation, mouse and/or keyboard grabbing, etc in the Win32 GDK backend.
Could it be the same as bug #137551? If you don't get any caret (blinking line at text insertion point) after clicking something with the mouse to bring up a new window to type in, then it is not unlikely that it is the same problem. In that case, the workaround is to switch focus to another window and then back to the newly opened window which should make the caret appear.
I believe that Robert is correct that this is a duplicate of bug #137551; the workaround he describes works when this problem is exhibited in gaim.
*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 137551 ***