Cursor lock

[Richmond]

On 01/18/2011 08:31 PM, J. Landman Gay wrote:
> Is anyone else having trouble with the cursor not updating, or 
> sometimes locking, in version 4.5.3? I'm noticing it particularly in 
> the script editor, where the cursor doesn't change when you mouse over 
> different panes or outside the window.
>
> I'm also noticing that sometimes clicking on a window doesn't activate 
> it. The message box doesn't update to show the stack name and the 
> window titlebar remains disabled.
>
> Just trying to figure out if it's me with a stray "lock messages" 
> command somewhere, or if I can blame it on someone else.
>
> OS X Snow Leopard.
>

Down in the undergrowth [i.e. RR 4.0 on a PPC macMini running Tiger] the 
cursor suddenly
turns into what I like to call "the Clariswork clock", or, more 
accurately " the Mac OS 7 clock"
and gets stuck like that.

So, this is probably "old cheese".