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Re: only "Handcursor"

• To: mathgroup at smc.vnet.net
• Subject: [mg41696] Re: [mg41662] only "Handcursor"
• From: "P.J. Hinton" <paulh at wolfram.com>
• Date: Sat, 31 May 2003 06:07:44 -0400 (EDT)
• Organization: "Wolfram Research, Inc."
• Sender: owner-wri-mathgroup at wolfram.com

On Fri, 30 May 2003, Friedrich Laher wrote:

>  From Time to time after starting mathematica 4.2 student,
> the window shows a handcursor, no calculations are executed,
> backspace produces small squares width dottet borders.
> Only restarting the windowmanager ( KDE ) helps.
> 
> (
>   SuSE Linux 8.0, KDE, smp-kernel [ but happened as well with normal 
> kernel, using only one CPU ]
>   Tyan Tiger mainboard 2 AMD XP 2400 processors,
>   4 GByte RAM
> )

You can find an explanation and solution in this FAQ page:

http://support.wolfram.com/mathematica/systems/linux/interface/cursor.html 

-- 
P.J. Hinton
User Interface Programmer                         paulh at wolfram.com
Wolfram Research, Inc.
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