Bug#364288: Bug#331435: xserver-xorg: Mouse pointer occasionally vanishes

[Tore Anderson <tore@linpro.no>]

* Michel Dänzer

> Both of you, please also make sure (e.g. using xlsclients) that there
> are no 'hidden' clients that could interfere, and that killing the
> clients actually causes them to close their X display connection (and
> possibly open a new one).

  I checked this, there is no client left, except the one started by
 xinit.  Usually this is my window manager Openbox, but I did try once
 to make xinit start an xterm instead, and then start Openbox
 afterwards.  That enabled me to kill Openbox without also pulling down
 the X server - without that having any effect.  I started another
 window manager afterwards (Window Maker, if I recall correctly), but
 yhe defunct state persisted.

  So the only suggestion I have left is that Openbox is somehow
 triggering a bug in X11R7, or vice verca.  In the latter case, however,
 it is weird that the state remains even after Openbox is killed and
 another window manager is started in its place.  Openbox hasn't changed
 in a while, either...  In any case, I'm running fvwm now, to see if the
 hang also occur in an X session where Openbox has never been present.
 I haven't seen a hang yet, but I have done it for too short to conclude
 yet.  I'll keep you posted.

Regards
-- 
Tore Anderson