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. -- Joe -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/20111010213937.201ba...@jretrading.com
