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[Neil Woolford]

At 11:43 20/12/04, you wrote:

>Hi
>A friend of mine just installed ubuntu on his laptop and all is great 
>except...
>He gets an X in the middle of th screen t all times. The X is the standard 
>X mouse cursor, but he can't move it. He also get's an ordenary mouse 
>cursor, so it seems as if he has two cursors but can only use one of them.

 From a post a while ago...

 >
 > On Sun, 2004-10-10 at 04:39 -0400, Chris Bozic wrote:
 > > After I log in from GDM and my gnome desktop starts up, I have two
 > > mouse cursors.  One is the actual pointer cursor I'm supposed to have
 > > and the other is the default "X" shaped cursor that loads when you
 > > start a simple X session.  The "X" cursor is dead... in other words my
 > > mouse doesn't control it.  It stays floating over the center of my
 > > screen until I click any window's title bar.  Then it disappears until
 > > the next login.  I didn't see a bug listed for this or anything in the
 > > mail archives.   Is anyone else experiencing this?
 >
 > adding Option "HWCursor" "false" to the video card section
 > in /etc/X11/XF86Config-4 generally fixes this.
 >

Neil

See also 
http://www.ubuntulinux.org/support/documentation/faq/hwcursor/view?searchterm=hardware%20cursor

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