Re: Weird cursor problem

2016-08-04 Thread Alan Corey
Just to clarify, I see the left-pointing hand, but that's just a symptom, I can't do anything with the mouse like use the pager or any other application. Cursor movement isn't restricted to one window. I get out of it by using the keyboard shortcuts of Ctrl-arrow which normally jumps to another p

Re: Weird cursor problem

2016-08-03 Thread lists
Wed, 3 Aug 2016 21:02:20 +1000 [...] > It would be helpful if I could get the synaptics driver running first. ;) > The problem is I am unsure what kind of driver my touchpad uses, and > xinput reveals this: > > $ xinput > + Virtual core pointer id=2[master pointer (3

Re: Weird cursor problem

2016-08-03 Thread bytevolcano
Greetings Anton, On Wed, 3 Aug 2016 03:36:39 +0300 li...@wrant.com wrote: > Wed, 3 Aug 2016 07:10:51 +1000 bytevolc...@safe-mail.net > > > ... > > > > It still happens regularly on 5.9 (with all errata up to and > > including July applied) as well. I felt that this was quite random > > actually

Re: Weird cursor problem

2016-08-02 Thread lists
Tue, 2 Aug 2016 09:25:17 -0700 Philip Guenther > On Tue, Aug 2, 2016 at 8:12 AM, Alan Corey wrote: > > Anybody else see this? It's happening at least 6 times a day, it's a > > little annoying. It's happened a few times on my laptop (same 5.7 > > i386). It does happen without Firefox open but m

Re: Weird cursor problem

2016-08-02 Thread lists
Wed, 3 Aug 2016 07:10:51 +1000 bytevolc...@safe-mail.net > Philip Guenther wrote: > > On Tue, Aug 2, 2016 at 8:12 AM, Alan Corey wrote: > >> Anybody else see this? It's happening at least 6 times a day, it's a > >> little annoying. It's happened a few times on my laptop (same 5.7 > >> i386).

Re: Weird cursor problem

2016-08-02 Thread bytevolcano
Philip Guenther wrote: On Tue, Aug 2, 2016 at 8:12 AM, Alan Corey wrote: Anybody else see this? It's happening at least 6 times a day, it's a little annoying. It's happened a few times on my laptop (same 5.7 i386). It does happen without Firefox open but most of the time that's open anyway s

Re: Weird cursor problem

2016-08-02 Thread Philip Guenther
On Tue, Aug 2, 2016 at 8:12 AM, Alan Corey wrote: > Anybody else see this? It's happening at least 6 times a day, it's a > little annoying. It's happened a few times on my laptop (same 5.7 > i386). It does happen without Firefox open but most of the time > that's open anyway so I've only caught

Re: Weird cursor problem

2016-08-02 Thread Alan Corey
Anybody else see this? It's happening at least 6 times a day, it's a little annoying. It's happened a few times on my laptop (same 5.7 i386). It does happen without Firefox open but most of the time that's open anyway so I've only caught the cursor problem without Firefox a few times. Ctrl and