[thceed]

Recently my mouse pointer has been doing some odd things. I'm using MDK 9.1 and KDE 3.1.

Whenever I right-click to open a new tab from the menu when I'm browsing, or click on a drop down menu, the mouse pointer turns into the watch symbol. This has never happened before.

Also, when I log in, via gui, the mouse pointer stays as a big X and as the desktop comes up, the pointer stays as clock symbol for longer than normal; meaning, the pointer will stay a clock symbol as I point it to the taskbar, scroll bars, etc. instead of the arrow/hand.

I have gone into control center and disabled visual feedback, focus under/follows the mouse and busy cursor but the annoyance still persists. Is there something I'm missing here?


Another note, a couple of drop menus will not let me select from the list.

I know this is pretty much a stupid question but it is annoying the $#!& out of me!

[ed209]

Are you using the mouse driver directly in X or do you have gpm running? Sometimes gpm goes a little screwy.

ed

[thceed]

ed209, thanks for your reply.

AFAIK, I am using the mouse driver and not gpm. I don't have that package installed (gpm).

Seems like now the annoyance has ceased somewhat. Comes and goes at it's own will. I am figuring that it might be a background running process that's making the mouse pointer stay "busy" ?

[ed209]

Try running top when you are seeing the symptoms you may find the culprit. The best way to see if you are using gpm is just;

ps -ef |grep gpm

in a shell, if you get nothing back then its not running. How familiar are you with the X conf files?