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Re: Cursor Invisible on Emacs / Windows Server / Citrix
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Eric Brown |
Subject: |
Re: Cursor Invisible on Emacs / Windows Server / Citrix |
Date: |
Thu, 10 Oct 2013 21:30:01 -0500 |
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Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/24.2 (berkeley-unix) |
Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org> writes:
>> From: Eric Brown <eric.c.brown@mac.com>
>> Date: Sat, 04 May 2013 16:15:18 -0500
>>
>> Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org> writes:
>>
>> >> From: Eric Brown <eric.c.brown@mac.com>
>> >> Date: Fri, 03 May 2013 15:20:31 -0500
>> >>
>> >> I have a very strange problem: my cursor does not show up with the
>> >> combination shown in the subject. However, it _does_ appear if I
>> >> connect to the Windows Server directly, e.g. when I am at work.
>> >>
>> >> (Also, the cursor appears in every other application but Emacs!)
>> >
>> > What is your value of w32-use-visible-system-caret? If it's non-nil,
>> > Emacs will not draw its cursor, but will rely on the system caret to
>> > show point instead.
>>
>> I have tried both:
>>
>> (setq w32-use-visible-system-caret t)
>>
>> and
>>
>> (setq w32-use-visible-system-caret nil)
>>
>> and it's the same problem.
>
> Then the only approach I can suggest is to run Emacs under a debugger
> and see what's going on in the function that draws the cursor. I can
> tell you which functions to step through.
>
> Oh, and this is no longer stuff for this list, better file a bug
> report with "M-x report-emacs-bug RET" and take it from there.
Resurrecting an old post, for the purposes of others who may have seen a
similar problem.
It turned out to be a problem with the Citrix color palette being set
too low. When I jacked up to True Color, the cursor appeared.
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