Re: How to fix intermittently disappearing mouse pointer ?
On Tue, Aug 5, 2014 at 10:51 PM, Steve Litt <slitt@troubleshooters.com> wrote:
> I've googled this several times, but none of what I saw worked or
> seemed relevant. The following seemed the most relevant, but turned out
> not to be helpful:
>
> https://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?id=137080
>
> I have Wheezy running Openbox (I'm not sure how to detect Openbox's
> version, but I installed it normally with apt-get). I'm *not*
> running unclutter. Sometimes, my mouse pointer disappears when the mouse
> pointer comes to rest on anything with popup text, which is very
> obstructive (if you've ever worked on a computer that does this, you
> know what I mean).
>
> Often, this symptom doesn't happen for the first few minutes after
> starting X, but then later does. It appears not to happen in Xfce, but
> I didn't test Xfce for hours, so I can't be sure.
Happens with my XFCE. (Wheezy.)
> It appears not to
> happen with another user (I made user test), but once again, I didn't
> test user test for hours. I even copied all files from /home/slitt
> to /home/test, and the symptom didn't appear, and then when I went back
> to /home/test the symptom disappeared, for at least a few minutes.
>
> I suspect, for not much of a reason, that the symptom is triggered when
> the screen changes, either because it times out and goes blank, or
> because I ran a Youtube movie full screen. Due to the time it takes to
> close everything, log out, run startx, and try again, this intermittent
> has been slow to investigate.
>
> Intermittents are slow to solve because diagnostic tests are
> inconclusive. Eventually I'll nail this thing, but if any of you has
> had experience with this problem and remembers the solution, you could
> cut a lot of time off my investigation.
This isn't even intermittent. X11 is trying to do too much, that's
all. That means it doesn't have time to keep the pointer updated.
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Joel Rees
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