[ubuntu-studio-users] mousepointer disappears ...

[Ralf Mardorf]

On Mon, 10 Apr 2017 16:19:43 +0200, Hans Schneidhofer wrote:
>Sometimes the old and experienced packages have its advantages .... :-)

There were issues (at least one issue I noticed) with xscreensaver and
perhaps there are still issues when using an old LTS. IIRC each time I
started a user session for Ubuntu Willy, xscreensaver complained to be
outdated. I don't know if there were vulnerabilities, but it at least
was that much outdated, that there appears a warning, each time a
session was started. IIRC it disappears after the release upgrade to
Xenial, at least the log files don't show any upgrades.

[root at moonstudio ~]# dpkg -l '*xscreensaver*' | grep ii
ii  xscreensaver            5.34-2ubuntu1 amd64        Screensaver daemon and frontend for X11
ii  xscreensaver-data       5.34-2ubuntu1 amd64        Screen saver modules for screensaver frontends
[root at moonstudio ~]# grep xscreen /var/log/apt/history.log
Commandline: apt-get install --no-install-recommends xscreensaver
Install: xscreensaver-data:amd64 (5.30-1ubuntu1, automatic), xscreensaver:amd64 (5.30-1ubuntu1), libglade2-0:amd64 (2.6.4-2, automatic)
[root at moonstudio ~]# zgrep xscreen /var/log/apt/term.log.1.gz 
[root at moonstudio ~]# grep xscreen /var/log/apt/term.log
Selecting previously unselected package xscreensaver-data.
Preparing to unpack .../xscreensaver-data_5.30-1ubuntu1_amd64.deb ...
Unpacking xscreensaver-data (5.30-1ubuntu1) ...
Selecting previously unselected package xscreensaver.
Preparing to unpack .../xscreensaver_5.30-1ubuntu1_amd64.deb ...
Unpacking xscreensaver (5.30-1ubuntu1) ...
Setting up xscreensaver-data (5.30-1ubuntu1) ...
Setting up xscreensaver (5.30-1ubuntu1) ...
[root at moonstudio ~]# zgrep xscreen /var/log/apt/term.log.1.gz 
[root at moonstudio ~]# lsb_release -d
Description:	Ubuntu 16.04.2 LTS