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mouse cursor turns to background colored square on 2nd screen
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RESOLVED: FIXED

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Description Christian Beier 2006-09-19 12:22:40 CEST
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Hi,
I updated to 4.4RC1 and now the mice cursor turns to a 40x40 background colored square after moving from screen0 to screen1. When I move back everything is ok.
Should not depend on Xorg or my ATI GPU, it starts with new Xfce version

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. configure Xorg to use 2 screens (no stretching, window exchange not possible)
2. move mice / mouse to second screen
3. move mouse / mice back

Actual Results:  
mice cursor turns to background colored square

Expected Results:  
show a nice mice cursor

also application crash if second instance is started on other screen, but i thiink it's worth a new bug report
Comment 1 Olivier Fourdan editbugs 2006-09-19 14:18:46 CEST
Sorry, but the window manager has nothing to do with the mouse cursor. It looks a lot like a bug in the Xorg driver.
Comment 2 Olivier Fourdan editbugs 2006-09-19 14:19:48 CEST
As for the apps crashing, ditton I hardly se how this could be related to the window manager.
Comment 3 Christian Beier 2006-09-19 14:24:18 CEST
(In reply to comment #2)
> As for the apps crashing, ditton I hardly se how this could be related to the
> window manager.
> 
it might depent on vte and is another story. sorry for posting it here
Comment 4 Christian Beier 2006-09-19 14:25:11 CEST
(In reply to comment #1)
> Sorry, but the window manager has nothing to do with the mouse cursor. It looks
> a lot like a bug in the Xorg driver.
but the driver doesn't change during update from beta2 to rc1 so i thought it belongs to xfce*
Comment 5 Olivier Fourdan editbugs 2006-09-19 14:46:43 CEST
Well, an application can and may trigger bugs in the server, but typically, xfwm4 doesn't manage nor modify the mouse cursor.

If you run the compositor, you may try disabling it as it uses quite a lot of server memory (all windows are rendered off screen in pixmaps). You may also try to disable hwcursor in xorg.conf
Comment 6 Christian Beier 2006-09-19 15:19:29 CEST
(In reply to comment #1)
> Sorry, but the window manager has nothing to do with the mouse cursor. It looks
> a lot like a bug in the Xorg driver.

You are right! I forgot to reinstall ATI's driver after updating the Kernel, which I did befor installing Xfce4.4RC1
shame on me

Bug #2338

Reported by:
Christian Beier
Reported on: 2006-09-19
Last modified on: 2009-07-14

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Olivier Fourdan
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