[Users] How to compile claws on Debian Wheezy?

[Scott Lair]

On Mon, 25 Aug 2014 18:34:07 -0400
Steve Litt <slitt at troubleshooters.com> 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.
> 
> As you can imagine, this is an annoyance, but it's a showstopper when
> I use Inkscape, because I can't drag rectangles exactly to
> construction lines.
> 
> This thing's intermittent, and now I'm down to speculation, guesswork
> and prayer, and I'm hoping maybe it's confined to the version of Claws
> packaged by Debian Wheezy. I therefore want to compile my own
> Claws-Mail, in the hope that it won't produce this problem.
> 
> 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? 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)?
> 
> 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?
> 
> Any words of wisdom would be appreciated.
> 
> Thanks,
> 
> SteveT
> 
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You may want to try the backports first. Currently at 3.10.1.  Working
well on my system.

Scott