Second cursor, X 4.2.99.4?

oniq · Guru Joined: 02 Sep 2002 Posts: 597 Location: Connecticut

Ok, heres an oddity, a quite annoying one too.

Last night I updated xfree to 4.2.99.4. Whenever I close my laptop (screen turns off automatically), and open it again a second cursor appears near the center of the screen. Its shaped like the last cursor before I closed the laptop (moving cursor, hand cursor, etc.). It just sits there while I get a second cursor that I can use. Restarting X fixes this. Any ideas?
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oniq · Guru Joined: 02 Sep 2002 Posts: 597 Location: Connecticut

Waited a few minutes, rather than being impatient, and it ends up going away

Hopefully this'll be fixed by 4.3
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clarkbw · n00b Joined: 14 Nov 2002 Posts: 4 Location: Potsdam, NY

I had a little problem with my T23 Thinkpad that took me a while to fix, so I thought I'd share the solution. I don't have the super LCD display of some T23 Thinkpads, but both types use the Savage chipset.

I upgraded to the xfree 4.2.99.902 and got a dual curson on my display. I use a USB mouse along with the trackpoint, but even with the USB disabled I still had two cursors showing. One cursor was the classic X cursor which was centered on my screen and wouldn't move in response to either my USB mouse or the trackpoint. Every now and then the extra cursor would dissapear, but then it would come back, I couldn't figure out if there really was a pattern there.

During this time of having an extra centered cursor on the screen, the new whiteglass cursor looked great and worked like it was supposed to. When I took away the Inherits=whiteglass line from the index.theme file in icons/default I had the original pointer back from the earlier X and the centered extra cursor was gone. However I want the new cursor!

The only change that made the difference was adding an option to my XF86Config file in the devices section

oniq · Guru Joined: 02 Sep 2002 Posts: 597 Location: Connecticut

Thanks for replying, I have since downgraded (didnt mean to, really, but thats another story...), but will try next time I use 4.2.99 or, if it appears in 4.3.
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brian · Posted: Wed Feb 26, 2003 11:42 pm Post subject: Savage problem

I was able to fix the problem with 4.2.99.4 having the extra cursor by replacing the driver installed by X with the 4.2 driver available at:
http://www.probo.com/timr/savage40.html

oniq · Guru Joined: 02 Sep 2002 Posts: 597 Location: Connecticut

Seems the problem still exists in 4.3.0.

The following line did fix this, though: