549032 – Cursor not rendered in editor

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Bug 549032 - Cursor not rendered in editor

Summary: Cursor not rendered in editor

Status:	CLOSED DUPLICATE of bug 517671

Alias:	None

Product:	Platform
Classification:	Eclipse Project
Component:	UI (show other bugs)
Version:	4.12
Hardware:	PC Linux

Importance:	P3 normal (vote)
Target Milestone:	---
Assignee:	Platform-UI-Inbox
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Reported:	2019-07-07 02:25 EDT by Nathan Ridge
Modified:	2019-07-07 16:34 EDT (History)
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Description Nathan Ridge

2019-07-07 02:25:07 EDT

I've been experiencing a really strange problem with the Eclipse IDE: the cursor is no longer rendered in the editor.

It's there on IDE startup, and disappears basically as soon as I move it, and never comes back. Naturally, this makes editing very cumbersome.

This happens in both the JDT and CDT editors, so I assume it's a platform issue.

It happens both with and without SWT_GTK3=0, so I assume it's not a GTK issue (though I suppose it could be a GTK issue that affects both GTK2 and GTK3)?

If you have any suggestions for how I could diagnose the issue further, please let me know.

Comment 1 Nathan Ridge

2019-07-07 16:34:31 EDT

Running with GTK_IM_MODULE= in the environment (to clear the previous value of GTK_IM_MODULE=xim, which I have no idea where it comes from) fixes the problem. I guess that makes this a dupe of bug 517671.

(I see a patch landed there to issue a warning if GTK_IM_MODULE=xim is in the environment, but I did not get such a warning...)

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of bug 517671 ***