Cursor jumping in xterm?

[Michael J. Wheeler]

I have been using cygwin for awhile now at work and I just got a new desktop
machine, so I loaded cygwin on it. The machine is a dual opteron 248
(2.2ghz) w/ 2gig RAM running Windows XP SP2.

When using xterm (w/ bash as my shell) and typing, at random times, the
cursor will jump to the beginning of the line. In vi, when I'm in "input
mode" and typing, the cursor will randomly jump to the beginning of the
document. I have seen it do this when pressing the "h", "a", and backspace
keys as part of my typing. I cannot duplicate this problem at will -- it
appears to be very random. I'm sure it has happened on other keypresses, but
I type too fast to know which key I've hit to cause it.

Has anyone ever seen this before? On my old desktop machine, I was running
cygwin with XP SP2, so I don't think that is the problem, unless the newer
version of cygwin is incompatible with SP2 (I hadn't updated cygwin in
awhile on my old desktop machine).

Any help would be greatly appreciated.

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Michael J. Wheeler
System Administrator
Pittsburg State University
Phone:  620-235-4610
E-mail: mwheeler@pittstate.edu

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