Re: What can make the mouse cursor disappear?
>________________________________
>From: Joe <joe@jretrading.com>
>To: debian-user@lists.debian.org
>Sent: Tuesday, October 11, 2011 12:21 PM
>Subject: Re: What can make the mouse cursor disappear?
>
>On Tue, 11 Oct 2011 13:45:12 +0000 (UTC)
>Camaleón <noelamac@gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> On Mon, 10 Oct 2011 21:39:37 +0100, Joe wrote:
>>
>> (...)
>>
>> > 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 cannot see that behaviour at least in wheezy (running GNOME and
>> Intel VGA).
>>
>> > I came across references to unclutter, but I don't have that
>> > installed.
>>
>> If other DEs are also affected, it could also be a kernel or Xorg
>> upgrade what made your cursor flickers or turns invisible (or even
>> the VGA driver in use).
>>
>> Have you updagred any of those programs in the last weeks?
>>
>
>There was a kernel upgrade three days ago, which didn't affect
>anything. I didn't make a note of exactly when this happened, as I was
>away from home a bit and there were other things to do. I did some
>backups and tidied up, including a cache clean...
>
>I can't really narrow the problem down more than to about 'September',
>during which a mere 700 or so packages were upgraded. This *is* sid...
>
>And being sid, whatever the culprit is will be replaced again at some
>point, so I'm reluctant to spend days on the problem. I just posted on
>the offchance that either someone else had seen it, or someone could
>say instantly 'ah, that must be xxxxx'. Not to worry.
>
>--
>Joe
>
Have you tried compiling another kernel. A while back I had something similar happen in Stable (squeeze) after I upgraded to 6.0.1 and it was related to this bug: http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=618665 ; They fixed it in the next point release (6.0.2). From what I understand it is a bug in an upstream kernel that somehow makes its way back in. I don't know if it will fix it or not, but you may want to compile a new kernel from kernel.org and see if your problem goes away. It was my workaround until it got fixed in Stable.
-Steven
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