Public bug reported: When I have a multimonitor setup, moving the cursor near the left edge of the right screen (i.e., towards the join), the mouse cursor disappears roughly eight pixels from the edge of the screen. The mouse is still there, and all controls respond to hovering and clicks -- it acts exactly as normal.
This may be because (I'm guessing) the mouse cursor is rendered based on where the top-left corner of its image "should" appear on the screen. Since the "head" is usually not in the top-left pixel of the cursor image -- there's some space, when it gets close enough to that edge, the top-left appears on the opposing monitor, and the cursor is rendered there -- but appears offscreen, as the entire pointer is on the opposite screen. Some testing using the "crosshairs" cursor supports this hypothesis -- when near enough to the edge, its leftmost pixels appear on the left-hand monitor, while the pointer is still in the right-hand one. This is Ubuntu 8.10, fully up-to-date, with -proposed enabled. This problem existed before enabling that repository as well. I am using the open-source ATI video driver. ** Affects: ubuntu Importance: Undecided Status: New -- Cursor disappears near edge of screen on multiscreen setups https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/298603 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs