Re: Mouse trails left on desktop?

[Jürgen Salk <juergen salk gmx de>]

Tim Lu <timlu@MIT.EDU> wrote:

> I am using GNOME 1.2 on my Linux box.  For some reason, when I drag my 
> mouse with the left mouse button down inside GNOME on X to create a 
> selection box, the outline of the box doesn't erase itself if you move
your 
> mouse around to change the selection box.  Therefore, it leaves a trail
of 
> "old" selection boxes on the screen.  Could anyone tell me how to solve 
> this?  I am using the Enlightenment windowmanager. 

Hi,

I think this is indeed not an X related problem. I have seen this
odd behavior with Enlightenment, WindowMaker, IceWM and Sawfish
if - and only if - these were running together with a gnome-session
*and* the X server was running at a color depth of 15 bpp.

Check the screen section(s) in your /etc/XF86Config file. If your 
X server happen to run at 15 bpp, try changing it to 16 bpp.

Hope it helps.

Regards - Juergen.

 

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