"X" cursor stays after desktop loads

Chris Bozic cbozic at gmail.com
Mon Oct 11 17:09:19 UTC 2004


I tried setting HWCursor to both off and false and neither seemed to work.

Chris

On Mon, 11 Oct 2004 10:27:48 -0400, Nathaniel McCallum
<npmccallum at canonical.com> wrote:
> 
> 
> 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.
> 
> Nathaniel
> 
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