Thursday, 13 February 2014

Re: Cursor doesn' follow typing

On Thu, Feb 13, 2014 at 10:35:13PM +0100, palama@inwind.it wrote:
> Hi,
> I am a newcomer to the list and have a problem with netsurf which I am unable
> to solve.
> I'm trying to use netsurf on a i386 Debian Jessie box.

There is no such thing. Do you mean Debian Testing? Sid? What version of NetSurf
are you using?

> If I start netsurf with the default homepage www.google.com and type a string
> of 7 "a"s in the search field,
> the cursor in the field moves slower than the right end of the string. After 7
> "a" the cursor is between the 6th and the 6th "a" instead of being at the
> right
> of the 7th "a" as it should be. It seems that the routine that moves the
> cursor
> underestimates the space occupied by the string by a factor of 6/7.
> Do you have any suggestion to solve the problem?

A patch :)

More seriously, is this the GTK front end, or the framebuffer? If the
later, which renderer? SDL? Frambuffer? X?

B.

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