[3802] in SIPB bug reports
RS/6000 xscreensaver
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Jonathan I. Kamens)
Tue Jun 1 14:16:30 1993
Date: Tue, 1 Jun 93 14:16:18 -0400
From: "Jonathan I. Kamens" <jik@gza.com>
To: jfc@athena.mit.edu
Cc: bug-sipb@athena.mit.edu
In-Reply-To: John Carr's message of Fri, 28 May 1993 16:32:58 EDT <9305282032.AA01411@Achates.MIT.EDU>
Date: Fri, 28 May 1993 16:32:58 EDT
From: John Carr <jfc@Athena.MIT.EDU>
Sometimes after I unlock xscreensaver on an RS/6000 the mouse warps to
the center of the screen about 10-15 seconds after the screen unlocks.
This is very annoying because I have usually started typing quickly by
then.
I don't suppose you know how to make this happen reliably?
It's going to be a while before I can investigate it, but when I do,
the more details I have, the easier it will be.
Is it possible that this is due to a bug in the handling of Xt
timeouts on the RS/6000? All of the warping is done with timeouts,
and I see no reason why it should behave differently on the RS/6000,
so if that's the only platform on which it's happening, it's possible
that it's due to some POSIXism in the RS/6000 signal handling that the
version of Xt we have for the RS/6000 isn't prepared to handle.
jik
