Re: Weird cursor problem

2016-08-04 Thread Alan Corey
Just to clarify, I see the left-pointing hand, but that's just a symptom, I can't do anything with the mouse like use the pager or any other application. Cursor movement isn't restricted to one window. I get out of it by using the keyboard shortcuts of Ctrl-arrow which normally jumps to another

Re: Weird cursor problem

2016-08-03 Thread lists
Wed, 3 Aug 2016 21:02:20 +1000 [...] > It would be helpful if I could get the synaptics driver running first. ;) > The problem is I am unsure what kind of driver my touchpad uses, and > xinput reveals this: > > $ xinput > + Virtual core pointer

Re: Weird cursor problem

2016-08-03 Thread bytevolcano
Greetings Anton, On Wed, 3 Aug 2016 03:36:39 +0300 li...@wrant.com wrote: > Wed, 3 Aug 2016 07:10:51 +1000 bytevolc...@safe-mail.net > > > ... > > > > It still happens regularly on 5.9 (with all errata up to and > > including July applied) as well. I felt that this was quite random > > actually

Re: Weird cursor problem

2016-08-02 Thread lists
Tue, 2 Aug 2016 09:25:17 -0700 Philip Guenther > On Tue, Aug 2, 2016 at 8:12 AM, Alan Corey wrote: > > Anybody else see this? It's happening at least 6 times a day, it's a > > little annoying. It's happened a few times on my laptop (same 5.7 > > i386).

Re: Weird cursor problem

2016-08-02 Thread lists
Wed, 3 Aug 2016 07:10:51 +1000 bytevolc...@safe-mail.net > Philip Guenther wrote: > > On Tue, Aug 2, 2016 at 8:12 AM, Alan Corey wrote: > >> Anybody else see this? It's happening at least 6 times a day, it's a > >> little annoying. It's happened a few times on my laptop

Re: Weird cursor problem

2016-08-02 Thread bytevolcano
Philip Guenther wrote: On Tue, Aug 2, 2016 at 8:12 AM, Alan Corey wrote: Anybody else see this? It's happening at least 6 times a day, it's a little annoying. It's happened a few times on my laptop (same 5.7 i386). It does happen without Firefox open but most of the

Re: Weird cursor problem

2016-08-02 Thread Philip Guenther
On Tue, Aug 2, 2016 at 8:12 AM, Alan Corey wrote: > Anybody else see this? It's happening at least 6 times a day, it's a > little annoying. It's happened a few times on my laptop (same 5.7 > i386). It does happen without Firefox open but most of the time > that's open

Re: Weird cursor problem

2016-08-02 Thread Alan Corey
Anybody else see this? It's happening at least 6 times a day, it's a little annoying. It's happened a few times on my laptop (same 5.7 i386). It does happen without Firefox open but most of the time that's open anyway so I've only caught the cursor problem without Firefox a few times. Ctrl and

Weird cursor problem

2015-12-02 Thread Alan Corey
I don't see anything in the archives about this. On 5.7 i386 with fvwm several times a day my cursor changes to the left-pointing finger arrow that Firefox uses to point to links and clicking on things has no effect. I can't change the focus, if an rxvt window has the focus I can type in it.