Strange Cursor behavior

[Bruce Marshall]

On 11/03/2015 05:26 PM, Luca Olivetti wrote:
> El 03/11/15 a les 21:19, Bruce Marshall ha escrit:
>
>> The cursor turns into a 4-pointed star with a red-dot in the middle.
>> Think of a compass quadrant with small arrows pointing N, S, E and West
>> with a red dot in the middle.
>
> That's the cursor when you're dragging a window.
> I have the same problem due to the touchpad in my dell having a life 
> of its own.
> I usually disable it, but often I forget since kde, not only doesn't 
> remember the setting, it doesn't even remember the shortcut to disable 
> it[*], so every time I start a new session (way too often since it's 
> so instable[**]) I have to go to the control panel, set the shortcut 
> and only then I can use it to disable the touchpad.
>
> [*] actually it does but it doesn't work unless I set it again, go 
> figure.
>
> [**] maybe it doesn't remember the shortcut because there's no way to 
> cleanly close the session https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1465866
>
> Bye

Thanks for the reply....   I have found out that it is what happens when 
you are moving a window...   and alt-F7 will trigger that action.   But 
at the time it happens, there are no windows being dragged.  I have yet 
to see if alt-F7 will un-do the cursor problem but will give it a try.