On Fri, 7 Oct 2005, Rob Siklos wrote: > Hi All, > > I don't quite know what to do with this, so I'll just tell you what I'm > seeing and hopefully you'll be able to tell me what the next steps are. > I *think* this is a cygwin x bug. > > I'm using Mozilla Thunderbird as my e-mail client, and I've noticed that > if I move the mouse over top of an X window (say, an x-term) during the > time that the new message notification popus up on my taskbar, my mouse > pointer will disappear, and won't reappear over any other X window until > I restart XWin. > > Any idea what this could be?
It probably is a Cygwin/X bug -- I've heard it mentioned before. I don't think there is a fix, but there *is* a workaround -- the X menu (which you get by right-clicking on the X icon in the system tray) should have a "Show Cursor" item, which will make the cursor reappear. HTH, Igor -- http://cs.nyu.edu/~pechtcha/ |\ _,,,---,,_ [EMAIL PROTECTED] ZZZzz /,`.-'`' -. ;-;;,_ [EMAIL PROTECTED] |,4- ) )-,_. ,\ ( `'-' Igor Pechtchanski, Ph.D. '---''(_/--' `-'\_) fL a.k.a JaguaR-R-R-r-r-r-.-.-. Meow! If there's any real truth it's that the entire multidimensional infinity of the Universe is almost certainly being run by a bunch of maniacs. /DA -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation: http://x.cygwin.com/docs/ FAQ: http://x.cygwin.com/docs/faq/