Travis, I don't understand why you keep saying that "you can't interact with things when Zoom Area Lock is enabled." The fact is, you *can* -- as long as the "Scale the mouse pointer" option is enabled. Please try it and you'll see. (Strictly speaking you can also interact using the unscaled pointer, but it will be offset by a specific amount related to the zoom level, so it's pretty much unusable.) The bug that's being referred to above has nothing to do with not being able to interact while the zoom area is locked.
Let me try to explain it again: The problem is that when "Scale the mouse pointer" is enabled (which is required to interact while zoomed in and while Zoom Area Lock is enabled) two mouse pointers appear -- the original unscaled pointer and the scaled pointer. Obviously it is very confusing to have two mouse pointers displayed, so the one that doesn't work while Zoom Area Lock is activated needs to be hidden. In order to hide the original unscaled pointer, the "Hide original mouse pointer" option must be selected under the "Mouse Behaviour" tab in the Compiz Settings Manager. This works fine, except that there is a bug (Please note: this is *the* bug) that prevents the 'busy' mouse pointer from displaying system wide even when not actively using Enhanced Desktop Zoom. That means that whenever the system is doing something that would normally display the busy pointer (loading a webpage, starting an application, etc.), the mouse pointer completely disappears until the pointer switches back to the standard arrow pointer. As far as I know, this problem can only be fixed by disabling "Hide original mouse pointer" and then restarting gdm. Obviously, no one should have to go through this to get the busy pointer working again. As I mentioned above, I believe the simplest solution would be to disable the hide option (i.e. if it's enabled) every time the zoom level is reset to 1X (or fix the hide option so that it doesn't make the busy cursor invisible in the first place). -- compiz->enhanced zoom desktop->zoom area lock = mouse input redirection breaks https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/180830 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
