** Summary changed: - windows screensaver makes X mouse cursor disappear + Mouse stops responding if the ubuntu screensaver activates while the focus is on an rdesktop windows
** Description changed: + if the screensaver activates while the focus is on an rdesktop window, then upon exiting the screensaver the mouse cursor is invisible and moving or clicking around has absolutely no effect. Also the only keys that have some effect are X windows and gnome shortcuts (like ctrl-alt-L, ctrl-alt-F1 etc) work as expected. + Everything comes back to normal if you once again activate and exit the screensaver (by pressing ctrl-Alt-L for example) + To reproduce: + 1) Start a session to a windows pc with rdesktop (you don't even need to login) + 2) Open a terminal and run the following command then quickly switch to rdesktop and wait for the screensaver to start + sleep 5; gnome-screensaver-command --activate + + I've confirmed the above in 4 Ubuntu installations on 2 different PCs (2X v6.06 and 2X v5.10) + ____________________________ + Here is the original description from Jimmy P: + _Sometimes_, when I leave my mouse in an rdesktop window for a while, I'll come back and the rdesktop window is black (windows screensaver is set to blank) but the mouse cursor is visible and shows an hourglass. Then as soon as I move the mouse, the windows screensaver turns off (I can see my windows desktop) but I can no longer see the mouse cursor. I click a lot and don't see any effect, so I think that not only is the cursor invisible, but X no longer responds to mouse events. I can hit alt-f4 to close windows in Windows and hit ctrl-alt-f1 to get to the console. The only way I can figure out to get my mouse back is ctrl-alt-backspace. This also happened with rdesktop 1.4.1 under debian unstable. I am running a new install (no upgrade) of breezy. This guy might be talking about the same problem: http://tinyurl.com/bdh5j ** Tags added: gnome keyboard mouse rdesktop screensaver ** Description changed: - if the screensaver activates while the focus is on an rdesktop window, then upon exiting the screensaver the mouse cursor is invisible and moving or clicking around has absolutely no effect. Also the only keys that have some effect are X windows and gnome shortcuts (like ctrl-alt-L, ctrl-alt-F1 etc) work as expected. + if the screensaver activates while the focus is on an rdesktop window, then upon exiting the screensaver the mouse cursor is invisible and moving or clicking around has absolutely no effect. Also the only keys that have some effect are X windows and gnome shortcuts (like ctrl-alt-L, ctrl-alt-F1 etc). Everything comes back to normal if you once again activate and exit the screensaver (by pressing ctrl-Alt-L for example) To reproduce: 1) Start a session to a windows pc with rdesktop (you don't even need to login) 2) Open a terminal and run the following command then quickly switch to rdesktop and wait for the screensaver to start sleep 5; gnome-screensaver-command --activate I've confirmed the above in 4 Ubuntu installations on 2 different PCs (2X v6.06 and 2X v5.10) ____________________________ Here is the original description from Jimmy P: _Sometimes_, when I leave my mouse in an rdesktop window for a while, I'll come back and the rdesktop window is black (windows screensaver is set to blank) but the mouse cursor is visible and shows an hourglass. Then as soon as I move the mouse, the windows screensaver turns off (I can see my windows desktop) but I can no longer see the mouse cursor. I click a lot and don't see any effect, so I think that not only is the cursor invisible, but X no longer responds to mouse events. I can hit alt-f4 to close windows in Windows and hit ctrl-alt-f1 to get to the console. The only way I can figure out to get my mouse back is ctrl-alt-backspace. This also happened with rdesktop 1.4.1 under debian unstable. I am running a new install (no upgrade) of breezy. This guy might be talking about the same problem: http://tinyurl.com/bdh5j -- Mouse stops responding if the ubuntu screensaver activates while the focus is on an rdesktop windows https://launchpad.net/bugs/24305 -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
