Sounds logical, but: 1 - how did this happen in the middle of a session (uptime of a few weeks)? 2 - why didn't restarting X or the runlevel solve this? 3 - how could I have solved this without the re-boot?
On Thursday 03 July 2008, Omer Zak wrote: > Looks like your cursor was loaded by an empty or transparent cursor > image. > > On Thu, 2008-07-03 at 18:03 +0300, Shlomo Solomon wrote: > > My cursor dissappeared. By randomly movng the mouse, I could see that the > > mouse was functioning (icons, windows, etc were highlighted so I > > could "guess" where the cursor should have been). > > > > I tried 2 possible solutions but neither solved the problem: > > 1 - ctrl-alt-Backspace to restart X > > 2 - ctrl-alt-F1 and from the terminal init 3 and then back to init 5 > > In both cases, my new X/KDE sessions came up with no cursor. > > > > In the end, I rebooted and everything is back to normal - but, hey, I > > shouldn't have to boot for something like this. > > > > What am I missing? > > > > BTW - I've had this problem before (although very rare - last time was > > several months ago). -- Shlomo Solomon http://the-solomons.net Sent by KMail 1.9.9 (KDE 3.5.9) on LINUX Mandriva 2008.1 ================================================================= To unsubscribe, send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the word "unsubscribe" in the message body, e.g., run the command echo unsubscribe | mail [EMAIL PROTECTED]
