Re: How to fix intermittently disappearing mouse pointer ?

2014-08-07 Thread Steve Litt
On Thu, 7 Aug 2014 14:10:11 + (UTC) Curt wrote: > On 2014-08-07, Steve Litt wrote: > > > > Alright, by all means, let me rephrase: > > > > My computer always breaks immediately after I hover Claws-Mail's > > message list. > > > > What are you, a helicopter? Stop hovering! The way I keep d

Re: How to fix intermittently disappearing mouse pointer ?

2014-08-07 Thread Curt
On 2014-08-07, Steve Litt wrote: > > Alright, by all means, let me rephrase: > > My computer always breaks immediately after I hover Claws-Mail's message list. > What are you, a helicopter? Stop hovering! -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "uns

Re: How to fix intermittently disappearing mouse pointer ?

2014-08-07 Thread Steve Litt
On Thu, 7 Aug 2014 09:38:26 + (UTC) Curt wrote: > On 2014-08-06, Steve Litt wrote: > > > > In other words (laugh away, guys and gals), Claws-Mail's message > > list breaks my computer. > > > > *Post hoc ergo propter hoc* (a common logical fallacy when > troubleshooting). Alright, by all me

Re: How to fix intermittently disappearing mouse pointer ?

2014-08-06 Thread Steve Litt
e's webmail for the list. (Lazy, > yes.) Joel, if this fits in with the way you do business, do me this favor: Log out of and restart X, and for a day or two never use Sylpheed, and see if you still get the disappearing mouse cursor. > > But I think the real bug is not in Claws,

Re: How to fix intermittently disappearing mouse pointer ?

2014-08-06 Thread Joel Rees
On Wed, Aug 6, 2014 at 10:41 PM, Steve Litt wrote: > [...] > It's not intermittent anymore. I can reproduce it at will. I can log > out and rerun X, and do almost anything, including change screen > resolution, and this symptom will not appear until I run claws-mail and > cursor over a message in

Re: How to fix intermittently disappearing mouse pointer ?

2014-08-06 Thread Steve Litt
On Tue, 5 Aug 2014 09:51:19 -0400 Steve Litt wrote: > I've googled this several times, but none of what I saw worked or > seemed relevant. The following seemed the most relevant, but turned > out not to be helpful: > > https://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?id=137080 > > I have Wheezy running

Re: How to fix intermittently disappearing mouse pointer ?

2014-08-06 Thread Steve Litt
On Wed, 6 Aug 2014 07:47:52 +0900 Joel Rees wrote: > On Wed, Aug 6, 2014 at 12:21 AM, Steve Litt > wrote: > > On Tue, 5 Aug 2014 22:58:18 +0900 > > Joel Rees wrote: > > > >> On Tue, Aug 5, 2014 at 10:51 PM, Steve Litt > >> wrote: [clip Litt's bona-fides on RTFM] > >> > > >> > I have Wheezy r

Re: How to fix intermittently disappearing mouse pointer ?

2014-08-05 Thread Joel Rees
On Wed, Aug 6, 2014 at 12:21 AM, Steve Litt wrote: > On Tue, 5 Aug 2014 22:58:18 +0900 > Joel Rees wrote: > >> On Tue, Aug 5, 2014 at 10:51 PM, Steve Litt >> wrote: >> > I've googled this several times, but none of what I saw worked or >> > seemed relevant. The following seemed the most relevant

Re: How to fix intermittently disappearing mouse pointer ?

2014-08-05 Thread Steve Litt
On Tue, 5 Aug 2014 22:58:18 +0900 Joel Rees wrote: > On Tue, Aug 5, 2014 at 10:51 PM, Steve Litt > wrote: > > I've googled this several times, but none of what I saw worked or > > seemed relevant. The following seemed the most relevant, but turned > > out not to be helpful: > > > > https://bbs.a

Re: How to fix intermittently disappearing mouse pointer ?

2014-08-05 Thread Joel Rees
On Tue, Aug 5, 2014 at 10:51 PM, Steve Litt wrote: > I've googled this several times, but none of what I saw worked or > seemed relevant. The following seemed the most relevant, but turned out > not to be helpful: > > https://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?id=137080 > > I have Wheezy running Open

How to fix intermittently disappearing mouse pointer ?

2014-08-05 Thread Steve Litt
I've googled this several times, but none of what I saw worked or seemed relevant. The following seemed the most relevant, but turned out not to be helpful: https://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?id=137080 I have Wheezy running Openbox (I'm not sure how to detect Openbox's version, but I install

Re: Disappearing mouse

2010-09-10 Thread John A. Sullivan III
On Sat, 2010-09-04 at 00:21 -0400, Robert Brockway wrote: > On Fri, 3 Sep 2010, John A. Sullivan III wrote: > > > Has anyone experienced this in Debian? Is there a definitive cause and, > > more importantly, a real solution? Thanks - John > > I had this with an NVidia chipset (don't recall the ex

Re: Disappearing mouse

2010-09-04 Thread John A. Sullivan III
On Sat, 2010-09-04 at 00:21 -0400, Robert Brockway wrote: > On Fri, 3 Sep 2010, John A. Sullivan III wrote: > > > Has anyone experienced this in Debian? Is there a definitive cause and, > > more importantly, a real solution? Thanks - John > > I had this with an NVidia chipset (don't recall the ex

Re: Disappearing mouse

2010-09-03 Thread Robert Brockway
On Fri, 3 Sep 2010, John A. Sullivan III wrote: Has anyone experienced this in Debian? Is there a definitive cause and, more importantly, a real solution? Thanks - John I had this with an NVidia chipset (don't recall the exact chipset right now). I had to add a SWCursor option to prevent cu

Re: Now you see it, now you don't--the tale of the disappearing mouse...

2005-06-30 Thread Kent West
Nicholas Syrotiuk wrote: > I first began using Linux in January 2005 by installing Debian > "sarge." I was a very happy user until I upgraded my system on 4 > June, just a couple of days before 3.1 was released. > > Since then I have had one major problem: I can't *see* the mouse at > all when I

Now you see it, now you don't--the tale of the disappearing mouse...

2005-06-30 Thread Nicholas Syrotiuk
I first began using Linux in January 2005 by installing Debian "sarge." I was a very happy user until I upgraded my system on 4 June, just a couple of days before 3.1 was released. Since then I have had one major problem: I can't *see* the mouse at all when I use "rdesktop." When I move the