Re: Mouse cursor disappears in some programs

Hi again!
I finally discovered the cause of my problem. Although I previously did 
not mention it, I was using SLIM as my login manager, and in slim.conf I 
had the option "hidecursor" set to true. This option enabled was what 
caused the disappearance of the mouse cursor in some situations but not 
in all.
The option is set to false by default, but I must have enabled it a long 
time ago, and due to lack of a better description of what this option 
does or due to my carelessness I must thought that it pertains only to 
the mouse cursor that might be shown in SLIM but not in any DEs or WMs. 
My mistake...
I discovered this when I launched Ratpoison by using the "startx" 
command instead of via SLIM and noticed that the mouse cursor did not 
disappear. Further search on Google, this time with more relevant 
keywords, led me to a topic on the Arch Linux forums about this problem 
- https://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?id=58290.
In the end I want to apologize for bothering you all with a problem 
caused by my own fault and at the same time thank Daniel Maturana and 
Ingo Krabbe for their assistance.
Good luck and happy further usage of Ratpoison!

(Relevant web page - http://denkrobat.de/wiki/index.php/Slim.conf.)


On 27/07/11 21:09, Ingo Krabbe wrote:
> On Wed, Jul 27, 2011 at 08:23:22PM +0300, sermag wrote:
>> I have recorded a video with xvidcap that shows what kind of problem I
>> am experiencing. It is available for download in the following link:
>> http://www.mediafire.com/?7l36j19r2bajhq6
>> (Sorry about using a 3rd party service, but I didn`t have any other
>> place to upload it.)
> 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.
>
> Try "tmpwm" to switch into another wm temporarily and see if that
> restores your mouse cursor.
>
> I will try to install deluge and liferea to see if I can reproduce your
> problems.
>
> bye ingo
>
>> On 27/07/11 00:16, sermag wrote:
>>> Hi!
>>> Although I have used Ratpoison only for a short time I have to admit
>>> that I quite like it. Everything works fine except there is one glitch
>>> and I hope that you can help me fix it.
>>> When I launch programs like Deluge and Liferea (and some other) my
>>> mouse cursor disappears. I can highlight, select and click on things
>>> but only blindly. When I press Ctrl-T the mouse cursor shows up (as a
>>> box instead of the default appearance of course) but if I cancel this
>>> mode it again disappears. In other programs, e.g. Firefox, the mouse
>>> cursor shows up fine and does not disappear. But when I am presented
>>> with a file download location selection window in Firefox the mouse
>>> cursor again disappears.
>>> I have searched on Google for a solution for this problem but could
>>> not find any relevant information. The Ratpoison IRC channel was
>>> fairly quiet on this problem (but I have to admit that maybe I didn't
>>> stay there long enough).
>>> I doubt that this has anything to do with my .ratpoisonrc because this
>>> problem exists even without a .ratpoisonrc present.
>>> If any more information is needed I'll be happy to supply it.
>>>
>>> Best regards,
>>> Sergey
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