Re: Mouse cursor disappears in some programs

On 27/07/11 21:09, Ingo Krabbe wrote:
> I'm sorry about your problem, but I still can't figure what might
> happen, as ratpoison actually never touches mouse cursor visibility.
> For example the "banish" command does not hide the mouse cursor but just
> moves it out of the way.
>
> On the other hand ratpoison not always answers as expected as it just
> implements a subset of window manager features.
>
> The only similar behaviour I can see here is, that the cursor hides
> during typing in a terminal, which I switched on as I wanted that.
>
> With nvidia-settings there are some options for "Hardware Cursor
> Shadow", that might affect mouse visibility.  Also there are some theme
> packs that install mouse cursor images, that might not work always.  But
> I haven't seen such a behaviour before.
Actually I'm using an Intel video driver (for an integrated video card) 
and as far as I know a similar configuration utility to nvidia-settings 
does not exist in for Intel in Linux.
Also I have not installed any theme packs; I think everything is more or 
less vanilla.
> Try "tmpwm" to switch into another wm temporarily and see if that
> restores your mouse cursor.
I tried it with twm (the default WM for Xorg) and my mouse cursor showed 
up everywhere without any problems.
> I will try to install deluge and liferea to see if I can reproduce your
> problems.
Thank you for your effort!
>
> bye ingo