No, running with "-q" and renaming .emacs do not solve it. I also
tried
cleaning out my X resources with "xrdb </dev/null" and got the same
result.
I hope that someone who can observe this problem will decide to
debug it and track down the actual cause.
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Start emacs as an X window and enter iso-accents-mode. Whenever you
type a composite character, for example `" SPC' for the `"' character,
the mouse cursor becomes the wristwatch shape and the usual mouse
functions cease to work. Everything reverts to normal at the next RET
or C-SPC or C-p or certain other actions. Normal typing of text,
however, does not cause the mouse to resume functioning.