Bug 125393

Summary:	simple X11 mouse cursors for kmail on remote display
Product:	[Unmaintained] kmail	Reporter:	Andrew Robb <ajrobb>
Component:	general	Assignee:	kdepim bugs <pim-bugs-null>
Status:	RESOLVED INTENTIONAL
Severity:	wishlist
Priority:	NOR
Version First Reported In:	unspecified
Target Milestone:	---
Platform:	openSUSE
OS:	Linux
Latest Commit:		Version Fixed/Implemented In:
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Description Andrew Robb 2006-04-12 02:01:59 UTC

Version:            (using KDE KDE 3.4.2)
Installed from:    SuSE RPMs
OS:                Linux

I want to use kmail on a remote display through "ssh -X" over broadband. The graphical mouse pointers are very very slow and I might have to wait several seconds for the pointer to move when I am dragging e-mail between folders.

I have configured "none" as my KDE mouse theme but I still get the multi-part graphical mouse cursor within kmail. Worse than that, while the local display does show X cursors, I find that connecting through "ssh -X localhost" brings back the full 3D default KDE cursors as well as the multi-part drag-and-drop cursor.

I suggest that kmail defaults to using a font cursor for drag-and-drop on remote displays.

Comment 1 Thiago Macieira 2006-04-14 12:57:24 UTC

I don't see any 3D cursors in my setup, KMail or anywhere else. Maybe it's a distribution configuration.

Can you reproduce the problem with KMail from KDE 3.5.2?

One other thing: you should really be using NX.

Comment 2 Andrew Robb 2006-04-18 10:15:58 UTC

I suspect that SuSE OSS 10.0 uses the 3D/polychrome cursor extension to  
X11. These are hopefully hardware cursors on the X-server side. My problem  
remains that kmail attaches an extra image to the cursor during  
drag-and-drop and this severely slows down the response on remote desktops.

I am using KDE 3.4.2 and 3.2.1, as distributed in SuSE OSS 10.0 and SuSE  
9.1 respectively. Can I just do a local build of KDE 3.5.2 that won't  
conflict with these installed RPMs?

Thanks for pointing me to NX - I am installing FreeNX on my systems.

On Fri, 14 Apr 2006 11:57:24 +0100, Thiago Macieira <thiago@kde.org> wrote:

[bugs.kde.org quoted mail]

Comment 3 Thomas McGuire 2009-08-23 20:07:09 UTC

KMail really has nothing to do with mouse cursors, this bug should be fixed somewhere else.