Subject: Re: bug#17609: 24.4.50; trunk r117096: disappearing cursor in X

From: Dmitry Antipov <[email-masked]>
Date: Tue, 27 May 2014 21:52:07 +0400

On 05/27/2014 05:43 PM, Jan Tatarik wrote:

> Starting with revision 117096, the X cursor will sometimes disappear and
> remain invisible until as long as emacs is running.

Reproduced. Could you please verify that old (fallback) code
still works?  I.e. with Xfixes extension always disabled?

=== modified file 'src/xterm.c'
--- src/xterm.c	2014-05-14 13:55:37 +0000
+++ src/xterm.c	2014-05-27 17:49:02 +0000
@@ -9752,8 +9752,7 @@
  x_probe_xfixes_extension (Display *dpy)
  {
  #ifdef HAVE_XFIXES
-  int major, minor;
-  return XFixesQueryVersion (dpy, &major, &minor) && major >= 4;
+  return false;
  #else
    return false;
  #endif /* HAVE_XFIXES */

Dmitry