John Martin wrote:
> Joseph Mocker wrote:
>> Now that Sebastien has helped me work around my first problem with the
>> current DEV build in the IPS repo, I now have another problem.
>>
>> I run a dual-headed setup with the heads configured as "Separate X
>> Screens" (Not twinview, not Xinerama). With this current build when I
>> move the mouse pointer from one screen to the other, it doesn't
>> disappear from the other screen. This is more of a visual annoyance
>> than anything else, but this is new compared to 2009.06.
>>
>> The pointer on the exiting screen doesn't move or anything, its like
>> the X server just forgot to turn the pointer off as it the mouse
>> transitioned from one screen to the other. It just sits there next to
>> the edge of the screen, the last place it was before the transition
>> was made.
>>
>> Thoughts? Could this be an NVidia driver problem? Or Xorg server problem?
> Are you using Metacity or Compiz? The window manager, not the X server
> should be handling the cursor transitions.
The X server actually had a known bug there when in multi-screen mode:
6850903 Cursor on inactive screen not erased
This was fixed in build 119, but that build was not made available in
/dev, so users should see the fix later this week when upgrades to build
121 become available in /dev.
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-Alan Coopersmith- alan.coopersmith at sun.com
Sun Microsystems, Inc. - X Window System Engineering
