I am running Gnome 2.6.1 (distro-provided) on Debian-testing with a 2.6.8 kernel. The hardware is an IBM T23 laptop. When I login into gnome, I get an extra mouse pointer that appears in the center of the screen just as the Debian splash screen is showing applications loading. The extra pointer sticks around even after the 'real' pointer shows up. The extra pointer is always-on-top and it follows the desktop focus if I switch desktops. Sometimes it will vanish, but it most often reappears whenever some kind of redisplay happens -- like when xscreensaver starts or (most frustratingly) when I start a movie (using ogle DVD player). When it reappears, it appears at the current position of the 'real' mouse pointer, and it has a shape that corresponds to the 'real' mouse pointer's context -- e.g. if the mouse happens to be over the edge of a window, the extra pointer will look like a window-resize pointer. I first suspected an X problem, but the problem doesn't occur in KDE. Rather, sometimes in KDE I see an extra pointer appear for an instant, but it never lasts longer than an instant. Also, the problem doesn't occur [in gnome] when I am logged in as root. I created a test user with default settings, and she had the problem as well. I don't know much about X and the various display managers [yet], so I'm afraid I can't ask a more specific question than, "why does this happen?" It's really annoying to watch a movie with a big white hand in the middle of the screen. I can post screenshots and configuration files upon request. TIA, -Brandon _______________________________________________ gnome-list mailing list gnome-list@xxxxxxxxx http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/gnome-list
