Hi everyone, I'm part of the minory who currently uses a Zaphod style dual monitor setup with separate X screens for every monitor. When I recently upgraded from 7.4 to 7.5, some utilites which I adopted[1] which manipulate the mouse cursor started malfunctioning. My two X screens are setup to be "apart" so that the mouse does not pass between them, and I use my utilities to move the mouse between the two screens. But with 7.5 every now and then a condition is triggered where the mouse cursor will just continually jump from screen to screen, keeping the X server at 100% CPU. I cannot even shut it down using CTRL-ALT-Backspace.
I've noticed comments in other threads on this mailing list that Zaphod mode is not really supported any more (for completeness' sake, I'm using the binary Nvidia drivers). So my question is, is there value in trying to track down the bug in Xorg which causes the mouse to jump back and forth? Or should I just switch to a XRandR setup already, and my time is better spent trying to get the apps fixed which were the reason that I set up two X screens in the first place. I'm mainly talking about full screen games, in particular under wine. Though I haven't tried an XRandR style setup in a long time, maybe wine is already handling this better than when I tried last. To be honest, I was also glad to not having any artifacts like pop-ups showing up split between the two screens -- something which to my amazement still happens today in Xinerama mode, when I used it briefly in the past month. Any input would be very welcome! ~David [1]: http://ds.mcbf.net/wiki/DualscreenMouseUtils _______________________________________________ xorg mailing list [email protected] http://lists.freedesktop.org/mailman/listinfo/xorg
