What can make the mouse cursor disappear?
For the last few weeks, my mouse cursor has been misbehaving. It's sid,
so I didn't pay much attention for a while, but it doesn't seem to have
been fixed, and I can't find any sign of anyone else having the same
problem.
The cursor disappears when stationary in certain locations, mostly
around the edges of icons and windows. It always disappears if a window
is scrolled vertically, whether using the wheel or the scroll bar. It's
off all of the time while stationary in certain modes of certain
applications such as the Gimp and PCB. Since a graphics program
generally requires quite precise mouse control, these programs are
very difficult to use at all.
I normally run Gnome, but I have LXDE, Openbox and TWM installed, and
cursor behaviour is the same in all of them, so I think that rules out
any particular window manager.
My question is: what controls the visibility of the cursor when
crossing icons and window features, operates tooltips, etc? I've spent
quite some time with Mr Google without finding a definite answer, but
I'm getting the feeling it's GTK, especially as the current PCB is
based on it, as obviously is the Gimp. The scroll behaviour seems to
be the same in every application which has a vertical scroll bar, and
I have no idea if they all use GTK. Can anyone confirm or refute this?
I came across references to unclutter, but I don't have that installed.
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Joe
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