On Tue, Aug 5, 2014 at 10:51 PM, Steve Litt <sl...@troubleshooters.com> wrote: > I've googled this several times, but none of what I saw worked or > seemed relevant. The following seemed the most relevant, but turned out > not to be helpful: > > https://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?id=137080 > > I have Wheezy running Openbox (I'm not sure how to detect Openbox's > version, but I installed it normally with apt-get). I'm *not* > running unclutter. Sometimes, my mouse pointer disappears when the mouse > pointer comes to rest on anything with popup text, which is very > obstructive (if you've ever worked on a computer that does this, you > know what I mean). > > Often, this symptom doesn't happen for the first few minutes after > starting X, but then later does. It appears not to happen in Xfce, but > I didn't test Xfce for hours, so I can't be sure.
Happens with my XFCE. (Wheezy.) > It appears not to > happen with another user (I made user test), but once again, I didn't > test user test for hours. I even copied all files from /home/slitt > to /home/test, and the symptom didn't appear, and then when I went back > to /home/test the symptom disappeared, for at least a few minutes. > > I suspect, for not much of a reason, that the symptom is triggered when > the screen changes, either because it times out and goes blank, or > because I ran a Youtube movie full screen. Due to the time it takes to > close everything, log out, run startx, and try again, this intermittent > has been slow to investigate. > > Intermittents are slow to solve because diagnostic tests are > inconclusive. Eventually I'll nail this thing, but if any of you has > had experience with this problem and remembers the solution, you could > cut a lot of time off my investigation. This isn't even intermittent. X11 is trying to do too much, that's all. That means it doesn't have time to keep the pointer updated. -- Joel Rees Be careful where you see conspiracy. Look first in your own heart. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: https://lists.debian.org/caar43ioq7uzba1ufrbv61ehx_fgj-kdsacshwzd1kekgyjg...@mail.gmail.com