Peter Evans
The "phantom character" effect doesn't occur with Konqueror or in the URL window of Mozilla (1.3.1), but it does occur in, say, the search field of Google in Mozilla. As I type a string in the search field, the cursor gradually lags behind what I type. This if, in Google-in-Mozilla, I type konqueror I see the cursor immediately after the final "r"; if konqueror disable the cursor is in the middle of the final "e"; if konqueror disable flash the cursor is immediately after the final "s" and the final "h" appears like an "l". Hitting Alt-Tab twice renders the "h" legible.
I couldn't reproduce that either. Typing and editing in the search field of Mozilla works fine for me.
Perhaps I should add that all of this is in KDE. (Gnome sounds interesting, but I haven't yet ventured into it.)
For the problem discussed here, it does not matter here whether you
run Mozilla under KDE, Gnome, or any other desktop or window manager.
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Mike Fabian