[Users] How to compile claws on Debian Wheezy?

[Ricardo Mones]

Hi Steve,

On Mon, Aug 25, 2014 at 06:34:07PM -0400, Steve Litt wrote:
> Hi all,
> 
> On Debian Wheezy, Claws-Mail *appears to* make my mouse pointer twitchy
> and makes it disappear when a popup message appears. This always
> happens after I've run Claws, downloaded mail, clicked on a message,
> and mouse-hovered over a message in the message list. The only way to
> (temporarily) make it go away is to restart X and not run Claws.

Less drastic measures, like setting the cursor with xsetroot -xcf option,
does not restore it?

> Do you think it will be a problem compiling the latest and greatest
> Claws-Mail, which I guess right now is 3.10.1, on Debian Wheezy 64 bit
> with 16GB RAM? 

Nope (and you don't really need that amount of memory to build it, 512 MB
is just as fine as that :)

> Does anyone have anything to add to the INSTALL file
> that's in the tarball? If I ./configure it so that it's installed under
> my home directory instead of /usr/local or wherever, can I run it in
> parallel with the Wheezy packaged version (3.8.1)?

It will modify your rc files to add new options not present in 3.8.1, but
that should be harmless to 3.8.1 (anyway: backup first)

> And most important, does anyone have any ideas of compile options I can
> enable, or more likely disable, in order that Claws has no effect on
> the mouse pointer?

AFAIK all pointer handling is made through gdk_window_set_cursor, from
GTK's GDK library. So unless you change your GTK library, nothing to
tune there...
-- 
  Ricardo Mones 
  ~
  The three principal virtues of a programmer are Laziness, 
  Impatience, and Hubris.                                    man perl

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