urxvt cursor invisible after xorg 1.8.2 -> 1.9 upgrade

Ant P. · Watchman Joined: 18 Apr 2009 Posts: 6920

What else can I try? I've already tried reinstalling rxvt-unicode, reinstalling it with USE=-vanilla, tried reinstalling its direct dependencies, uninstalled/reinstalled xorg-server and its entire dependency tree, done all the revdep-rebuild and stale lafile check stuff...

It's only broken on my laptop though (intel 2.12.0), on my desktop it works fine (radeon 6.13.1).

sebaro · Veteran Joined: 03 Jul 2006 Posts: 1141 Location: Romania

Try the -cr and/or cursorColor options.

Ant P. · Watchman Joined: 18 Apr 2009 Posts: 6920

Of course that didn't fix it either. I have changed none of the settings since it last worked.

Stebalien · n00b Joined: 01 Oct 2010 Posts: 2

I have the same problem on intel (i915 driver with kms). My workaround is to enable the underline cursor (instead of the block cursor).
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gorkypl · Guru Joined: 04 Oct 2010 Posts: 444 Location: Kraków, PL

The same here - on laptop with xf86-video-intel the cursor is invisible in urxvt, on desktop with video-ati it works.

gorkypl · Guru Joined: 04 Oct 2010 Posts: 444 Location: Kraków, PL

Oh, one more thing - I've just noticed that it may be xcompmgr that causes this - after turning 3D acceleration off the cursor appears.
Do you use any compositing?

Stebalien · n00b Joined: 01 Oct 2010 Posts: 2

I noticed that as well. Cairo-compmgr causes the same problem.

gorkypl · Guru Joined: 04 Oct 2010 Posts: 444 Location: Kraków, PL

Bug reported, please add any info that may be relevant:
https://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=339716

Ant P. · Watchman Joined: 18 Apr 2009 Posts: 6920

I'm using Xfce's compositing, but it doesn't use 3D at all. Seems like something in the X server's compositing causes problems...

Glad to know it's not just me.

gorkypl · Guru Joined: 04 Oct 2010 Posts: 444 Location: Kraków, PL

Indeed it seems like xorg-server related problem - they've just resolved it on Arch:
https://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?id=106017

Ant P. · Watchman Joined: 18 Apr 2009 Posts: 6920

xorg-server 1.9.0.901 hasn't fixed this, unfortunately.

Anon-E-moose · Posted: Tue Oct 05, 2010 7:52 pm Post subject:

gorkypl · Guru Joined: 04 Oct 2010 Posts: 444 Location: Kraków, PL

bourane · n00b Joined: 25 Mar 2007 Posts: 30

I have the same problem with intel driver. Switching to tty1 (ctrl-alt-f1) and going back to Xorg solve the problem. but I have to do it each time i restart X.

Wicla · n00b Joined: 22 Aug 2004 Posts: 15 Location: Sweden

Hello,

I'm having the same issue in rxvt-unicode. Cursor is not visible (unless underscore cursor is enabled), irssi window (with default theme) and "make menuconfig" for kernel is also teared up (bg color is only working where there're text).

I tried to revert the following commit http://cgit.freedesktop.org/xorg/xserver/commit/?id=8d7b7a0d71e0b89321b3341b781bc8845386def6 with a patch in a local repository. I've tried it with both xorg-server version 1.9.3.902 and 1.9.4. Patching either version (by removing that row) shows no effect.

As with others it's working with my computer with a ATI graphics card but it's not working with intel. Switching between tty1 and Xorg does no good either for me.

Thanks.

Ant P. · Watchman Joined: 18 Apr 2009 Posts: 6920

This might have fixed it.

I'll try xf86-video-intel-9999 some time today and post back with results (unless someone else does first).

Edit: Nope. Still broken.

Wicla · n00b Joined: 22 Aug 2004 Posts: 15 Location: Sweden

Hello,

Found something wierd. I'm using awesome window manager and running urxvt in fullscreen (mod4+f) removes the glitches both with rendering colored background and the standard block cursor. However I'm not sure how this would be of any help.

BitJam · Posted: Mon Feb 14, 2011 4:40 am Post subject:

I'm running xorg-server-1.9.2 and rxvt-unicode-9.04-r1. I've never seen this problem. I don't using composite.