Re: [gentoo-dev] Fwd: [gentoo-user] Questions--help answer these and you might help Gentoo and Linux as a whole

[foser]

Mike Frysinger wrote:
>
> I have a demo for a school tomorrow in which, if I can prove that Gentoo
> will work well as a server OS (to use a big server rather than a bunch
> of small workstations not running Gentoo) then the school will probably
> go with my recommendation, and I have a few questions whose answers will
> greatly help the demo's likelyhood of success. This server will be used
> by thousands of people per year and, if Gentoo, I will let each one of
> them know about it and how to get it. (These are good CS students, the
> type of people that Gentoo is best for, IMO)
>
> 1) Mozilla's cursor isn't blinking as I type this. This is irritating
> beyond belief and makes it impossible to see where anyone is typing. How
> to fix this? (I am in GNOME2, which is what I will use for the demo)

You have probably compiled mozilla with gtk2 support, which is buggy. 
Recompile it with use flag "-gtk2".

- foser