Spinning wheel cursor on xterm window title bar

[Bruce Badger]

If I open an xterm window and position the mouse pointer/cursor over the window
title bar, the cursor is the spinning busy circle. The xterm shell operates
normaly, but returning to the title bar shows the spinning wheel.

The spinning wheel does not appear if some other window (a Firefox window in the
case used as I type this) is clicked on, and then I return the the xterm.
Opening a new xterm causes the spinning cursor to appear in the title bar of the
new xterm window, and all already existing xterm windows too.

No amount of flipping between workspaces (<ctl><alt><arrow key>) seems to make
the situation go away - returning to an xterm will show the spinning wheel.
Explicitly clicking in another window does make the situation go away.

This is only an aethetic problem from my POV, but some people might just sit &
wait for the spinning to stop - which (in my experience) it won't do by itself.

[Sebastien Bacher (seb128)]

no problem here. Anybody else able to reproduce the problem ?

[Bruce Badger (bbadger)]

I find that, if left alone, the spinning wheel does go away after 20 seconds or
so (on my PIII 800 Thinkpad T21) - so there is an element of my being an
impatient user here :-/

It seems that I see the spinning wheel on the window title bar if I launch an
xterm from a Gnome launcher button. If I start xterm from a shell prompt, there
is no spinning wheel. Note that the same spinning wheel state applies to all
xterm windows - it depends of the last method of opening.

I see the same problem on an instance of Ubuntu running in VMWare.

The launcher I use is on the top menu bar (FWIW) and has the following properties:

Name: Terminal
Generic Name: {blank}
Comment: Command line
command: xterm
Type: Application
Icon: {The same one used for the Gnome terminal}
Run in terminal: {not checked}

(PS: I have a launcher with exactly the same properties (except the icon) on a
Debian sarge system, and I get no spinning wheel there)

[Sebastien Bacher (seb128)]

I've tested on a warty system (pIII 750) and on a hoary system, no problem here ...

anybody else getting this problem ?

[Daniel Stone (daniels)]

Yah, getting it inconsistently with current hoary, have been getting it on and
off for a while.

[Daniel Stone (daniels)]

And it triggers for far longer for me -- it was going on for over an hour this
morning. Whether it stopped happening, or I stopped noticing (on this 1024x768
laptop, I tend to use all maximised windows), I'm not sure.

[Sebastien Bacher (seb128)]

anybody is still getting this with hoary ?

[Sebastien Bacher (seb128)]

no reply, bug closed. Feel free to reopen if you still get the issue with the
new versions.