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Cursor transfiguration when moving an icon on desktop
Status:
RESOLVED: INVALID
Product:
Xfdesktop
Component:
General

Comments

Description cariljph 2015-06-25 17:27:22 CEST
Cursor immediately changes when I move an icon on the desktop : two little horns over a pale body replicating the moved icon. 
Thereafter, the left horn acts as the real cursor and one has to drag the whole new thing till reboot or relogin.

This is very bad, since it shows at every "demo"... 

There are other description of the same problem elsewhere, for example this one :
http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php? … p=13288144

My PC configuration : Xubuntu 14.04.02, ASUS UX305 (cpu Intel Core M with Intel Integrated Graphics), 64 bit

Note that on this machine, XFCE 4.12 has the same problem.

After searching on forums about "Intel Graphics", I found a workaround by defining
Intel Graphics "AccelMethod" as "uxa" instead of the default "sna"... but this is not sustainable cause I loose vaapi accelerated video in VLC (black screen !). 

Nevertheless, this not-so-good "workaround" proves that there is some misfit between xfdesktop and "new" Intel Graphics drivers, esp with the "new" sna AccelMethod. And an upgrading of xfdesktop would be the real solution.
Comment 1 Thaddaeus Tintenfisch editbugs 2015-06-30 10:57:05 CEST
This is a driver bug and it needs to be fixed by the Intel developers.

Please download and install the latest version of the Intel GPU driver and see if the problem still occurs. If yes, forward this bug to the according bug tracker [1].

[1] https://bugs.freedesktop.org/
Comment 2 cariljph 2015-06-30 15:04:36 CEST
Please consider that I already have added the xorg-edgers ppa to get the latest available gpu driver with my Xubuntu 14.04 LTS.

Nothing changed.

I apologize for the interruption in your self content by my bug report.
Comment 3 Thaddaeus Tintenfisch editbugs 2015-07-02 14:17:02 CEST
*** Bug 12040 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***

Bug #12016

Reported by:
cariljph
Reported on: 2015-06-25
Last modified on: 2015-07-02
Duplicates (1):
  • 12040 Xfdesktop sensitivity to changes in graphics acceleration methods

People

Assignee:
Eric Koegel
CC List:
1 user

Version

Version:
4.11.8

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