I have an X stuck on my desktop

[Hubertus Hiden]

Hello Paul !

I've added Option "SWCursor on" and it works ! When starting Gnome now 
the mouse pointer is a X in the beginning and changes to  a pointer later.

Thanks,
Hubertus

Paul Sladen wrote:

>On Mon, 27 Sep 2004, Mark Kirven wrote:
>
>Hello Mark,
>
>  
>
>>Everytime I boot I have an X, which is dead center of the desktop,
>>    
>>
>
>Sounds like a Hardware-Cursor problem in X (interacting with the
>video-card in your laptop).  Could you help try and track it down
>by disabling the Hardware Cursor by adding the option as follows;  in the
>file:
>
>  /etc/X11/XF86Config
>
>Try adding an "Option" line like:
>
>  Section "Device"
>    ...
>    Option SWCursor on
>    ...
>  EndSection
>
>	-Paul
>  
>