Re: [9fans] weird cursor motion

[Lucio De Re <lucio@proxima.alt.za>]

On Thu, Apr 26, 2001 at 12:26:59AM +0900, kazumi iwane wrote:
>
> When acme automatically moves the cursor around, like when
> searching for a piece of text or resizing a window, often times
> (but not always) the cursor symbol on the screen stays where
> it was, until I wiggle the mouse a little bit, then it immedately
> jumps to where it is supposed to be. As if the cursor was
> daydreaming... Has anyone seen this?
>
On that subject, if somewhat tangential: vncviewer is terribly
irritating (no matter what platform, I should imagine) when using
"wily".  The cursor motion is entirely defeated by the viewer's cursor
position :-(

Just an amusing discovery.  There had to be some place where
vncviewer wasn't going to work properly.

And on a related note, I had at least one instance where I would have
given my right hand for a second mouse, while using acme.  Well, not
that a second mouse would have been terribly useful to a one-handed
person, but you get my drift...

MS Windows (I've tried '95, '98 and NT) responds quite well to two of
the rodents (yes, I have no idea if they are mice or mouses, like
mongoose) but with only one cursor.  I should imagine that grafting a
second mouse channel on Plan 9 would be easier (at the filesystem
level, coercing the software to use it would be a different
challenge).

++L