Where is my cursor?

[Stu Tomlinson]

On Wed, 2007-12-05 at 09:16 -0700, Joey Smith wrote:
> Sometime around 2.2, Pidgin stopped showing me the thin vertical bar
> the represents my text-cursor - the position in the text that
> currently has focus. This makes it incredibly hard to, for example,
> correct a typo. It has never come back. Pidgin is the only GTK app I
> see this behaviour in, and I've tried switching GTK themes to see if
> it was a theme issue, to no avail. Anyone have an idea on how I can
> get it back?

Did you load the Pidgin GTK+ Theme Control plugin and tell it to
override your cursor color to match your background color by any chance?

Regards,


Stu.