Re: Disappearing mouse
On Sat, 2010-09-04 at 00:21 -0400, Robert Brockway wrote:
> On Fri, 3 Sep 2010, John A. Sullivan III wrote:
>
> > Has anyone experienced this in Debian? Is there a definitive cause and,
> > more importantly, a real solution? Thanks - John
>
> I had this with an NVidia chipset (don't recall the exact chipset right
> now).
>
> I had to add a SWCursor option to prevent cursor going invisible from time
> to time under Lenny. Once it went invisible the X server would need to be
> restarted to recover it. The cursor was just invisible - it always worked
> perfectly if only you could guess where it was.
>
> This is an example from xorg.conf:
>
> Section "Device"
> Identifier "Configured Video Device"
> Driver "Vesa"
> Option "SWCursor" "yes"
> EndSection
<snip>
Alas, this did not work even after rebooting the computer. We still
have users losing their mouse several times each day and you can imagine
the upset that is causing. These are virtual desktops delivered via
X2Go (www.x2go.org) so their workaround is to suspend their session,
close the X2Go client and reconnect but it is still a major
inconvenience. It seems particularly provoked by rdesktop.
We also tried doing Alt-Ctl-D as suggested in another post about this
problem but that did not recover the mouse either. Ideally, we want to
prevent it from disappearing in the first place as we had hoped this
proposed solution would do.
Has anyone else experienced this? How did you fix it? Thanks - John
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