Not reproducible. It happened to me just that one time, as far as I remember.
Again, if it is even just _possible_ that an application can happen to "leak" cursor state and affect the behavior of the cursor for the whole system, something is either buggy or badly designed at the system level (don't know whether it's Unity or Xorg or what, but not just the application that triggers it). -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of DX Packages, which is subscribed to unity in Ubuntu. Matching subscriptions: dx-packages https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1073494 Title: The "waiting" cursor won't go away Status in Unity: New Status in “unity” package in Ubuntu: Incomplete Bug description: The mouse cursor has remained trapped in the rotating-circle animated "waiting-for-something-to-complete" status. I have closed all programs that I had opened, I have opened and used some, closed them again and it's still there rotating as if there was some operation in progress. It's been more than half an hour. ProblemType: Bug DistroRelease: Ubuntu 12.04 Package: unity 5.16.0-0ubuntu1 ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 3.2.0-33.52-generic 3.2.31 Uname: Linux 3.2.0-33-generic i686 NonfreeKernelModules: nvidia ApportVersion: 2.0.1-0ubuntu14 Architecture: i386 CompizPlugins: [core,composite,opengl,decor,vpswitch,mousepoll,compiztoolbox,snap,commands,place,resize,session,regex,grid,wall,move,gnomecompat,imgpng,animation,fade,unitymtgrabhandles,workarounds,scale,expo,ezoom,unityshell] Date: Wed Oct 31 10:37:18 2012 InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 10.04 LTS "Lucid Lynx" - Release i386 (20100429) ProcEnviron: TERM=xterm PATH=(custom, user) LANG=en_US.UTF-8 SHELL=/bin/bash SourcePackage: unity UpgradeStatus: Upgraded to precise on 2012-05-17 (166 days ago) To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/unity/+bug/1073494/+subscriptions -- Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~dx-packages Post to : dx-packages@lists.launchpad.net Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~dx-packages More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp
