Bug 100355 – Blinking cursor in Evolution's mail-reading windows

• Product: Gentoo Linux
• Status: RESOLVED INVALID

[Description Michael Krause 2005-07-26 05:30:54 UTC]

When reading any message in Evolution 2.2.1.1, I constantly have this blinking
cursor inside the mail display which I can move around using the cursor keys as
if I were editing the text, although I can't insert any characters - which
would, of course, not make any sense in a mail-reading window.

When opening a mail, this cursor is initially at the left-hand side of the
window and runs all the way from the top to the bottom of the mail, but you can
click inside the text and then it just becomes an ordinary cursor next to one of
the letters and you can use the cursor keys to move it around.

I have been observing this for half a year on this machine with earlier versions
of Evolution, but not on my machine at home, so it seems to be related to my
choice of USE flags on this computer.

Another problem occurred at about the same time: whenever I click on an embedded
link in a mail, my browser is opened and jumps to the URL (that's fine so far),
but also the scrollbar in the mail-reading window jumps to a completely
different position inside the mail so if I want to continue reading the mail I
have to search the position where I clicked the link. Very annoying.

Reproducible: Always
Steps to Reproduce:
1. Start Evolution
2. Click on any mail in your INBOX
3. See the cursor blinking



Expected Results:  
There should be no cursor.

Portage 2.0.51.22-r2 (default-linux/x86/2005.0, gcc-3.3.5-20050130,
glibc-2.3.5-r0, 2.6.12-gentoo-r6 i686)
=================================================================
System uname: 2.6.12-gentoo-r6 i686 Intel(R) Pentium(R) 4 CPU 2.80GHz
Gentoo Base System version 1.6.13
dev-lang/python:     2.1.3-r1, 2.2.3-r5, 2.3.5
sys-apps/sandbox:    1.2.11
sys-devel/autoconf:  2.13, 2.59-r6
sys-devel/automake:  1.4_p6, 1.5, 1.6.3, 1.7.9-r1, 1.8.5-r3, 1.9.5
sys-devel/binutils:  2.15.92.0.2-r10
sys-devel/libtool:   1.5.18-r1
virtual/os-headers:  2.4.19-r1, 2.6.11-r2
ACCEPT_KEYWORDS="x86"
AUTOCLEAN="yes"
CBUILD="i686-pc-linux-gnu"
CFLAGS="-mcpu=pentium3 -O3 -pipe"
CHOST="i686-pc-linux-gnu"
CONFIG_PROTECT="/etc /usr/kde/2/share/config /usr/kde/3/share/config
/usr/lib/X11/xkb /usr/lib/mozilla/defaults/pref /usr/share/config
/usr/share/texmf/dvipdfm/config/ /usr/share/texmf/dvips/config/
/usr/share/texmf/tex/generic/config/ /usr/share/texmf/tex/platex/config/
/usr/share/texmf/xdvi/ /var/qmail/control"
CONFIG_PROTECT_MASK="/etc/gconf /etc/terminfo /etc/env.d"
CXXFLAGS="-mcpu=pentium3 -O3 -pipe"
DISTDIR="/usr/portage/distfiles"
FEATURES="autoconfig distlocks sandbox sfperms strict"
GENTOO_MIRRORS="ftp://ftp.tu-clausthal.de/pub/linux/gentoo"
PKGDIR="/usr/portage/packages"
PORTAGE_TMPDIR="/var/tmp"
PORTDIR="/usr/portage"
SYNC="rsync://rsync.it.gentoo.org/gentoo-portage"
USE="x86 X Xaw3d alsa apm avi berkdb bitmap-fonts cdr cups curl dga doc eds
emacs emboss encode esd f77 fam flac foomaticdb fortran gd gdbm gif gimpprint
gnome gpm gstreamer gtk gtk2 imagemagick imlib ipv6 java jpeg kde ldap libg++
libwww mad mikmod motif mozilla mp3 mpeg ncurses nls nntp ogg oggvorbis opengl
oss pam perl png python qt quicktime readline samba slang ssl tcpd tetex tiff
truetype-fonts type1-fonts vorbis xml2 xmms xv zlib userland_GNU kernel_linux
elibc_glibc"
Unset:  ASFLAGS, CTARGET, LANG, LC_ALL, LDFLAGS, LINGUAS, MAKEOPTS, PORTDIR_OVERLAY

[Comment 1 foser (RETIRED) 2005-07-26 05:49:19 UTC]

It's called caret mode : View->Message Display->Caret Mode