From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Msuck: nntp://news.gmane.io/gmane.emacs.gnus.general/57708 Path: main.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: David Abrahams Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.gnus.general Subject: Re: suddenly, annoying flashing cursors! Date: Tue, 25 May 2004 11:48:37 -0400 Sender: ding-owner@lists.math.uh.edu Message-ID: References: NNTP-Posting-Host: deer.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1085500157 10899 80.91.224.253 (25 May 2004 15:49:17 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 25 May 2004 15:49:17 +0000 (UTC) Original-X-From: ding-owner+M6248@lists.math.uh.edu Tue May 25 17:49:10 2004 Return-path: Original-Received: from malifon.math.uh.edu ([129.7.128.13]) by deer.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 3.35 #1 (Debian)) id 1BSeAw-0001Ji-00 for ; Tue, 25 May 2004 17:49:10 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.math.uh.edu) by malifon.math.uh.edu with smtp (Exim 3.20 #1) id 1BSeAl-0003JG-00; Tue, 25 May 2004 10:48:59 -0500 Original-Received: from util2.math.uh.edu ([129.7.128.23]) by malifon.math.uh.edu with esmtp (Exim 3.20 #1) id 1BSeAg-0003JB-00 for ding@lists.math.uh.edu; Tue, 25 May 2004 10:48:54 -0500 Original-Received: from justine.libertine.org ([66.139.78.221] ident=postfix) by util2.math.uh.edu with esmtp (Exim 4.30) id 1BSeAd-0007ih-Ix for ding@lists.math.uh.edu; Tue, 25 May 2004 10:48:51 -0500 Original-Received: from main.gmane.org (main.gmane.org [80.91.224.249]) by justine.libertine.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id C32253A0063 for ; Tue, 25 May 2004 10:48:49 -0500 (CDT) Original-Received: from list by main.gmane.org with local (Exim 3.35 #1 (Debian)) id 1BSeAa-0005dl-00 for ; Tue, 25 May 2004 17:48:48 +0200 Original-Received: from 209-6-236-44.c3-0.smr-ubr2.sbo-smr.ma.cable.rcn.com ([209.6.236.44]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Tue, 25 May 2004 17:48:48 +0200 Original-Received: from dave by 209-6-236-44.c3-0.smr-ubr2.sbo-smr.ma.cable.rcn.com with local (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Tue, 25 May 2004 17:48:48 +0200 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ Original-To: ding@gnus.org Original-Lines: 17 Original-X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org X-Gmane-NNTP-Posting-Host: 209-6-236-44.c3-0.smr-ubr2.sbo-smr.ma.cable.rcn.com User-Agent: Gnus/5.110002 (No Gnus v0.2) Emacs/21.3.50 (windows-nt) Cancel-Lock: sha1:nM/DyE3T5XVzjE0JqE46liPWyAs= Precedence: bulk Xref: main.gmane.org gmane.emacs.gnus.general:57708 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.gnus.general:57708 David Abrahams writes: > All of a sudden I've noticed that the Emacs session I use for Gnus is > periodically doing something on disk which causes my mouse cursor to > flash annoyingly between a pointer and an hourglass periodically. > It's getting to be a real visual distraction and I don't know how to > stop it. I haven't changed my .emacs, .gnus, updated my Emacs or my > Gnus installation in quite a while. Does anyone have a clue for me > as to how to dispell this curse? Sorry; false alarm. It had nothing to do with Gnus or Emacs after all. -- Dave Abrahams Boost Consulting http://www.boost-consulting.com