KDE mouse pointer bug

[Duane Attaway]

On Thu, 9 May 2002, Marvin Bellamy wrote:

> Well, I gave up on the Debian experiment.  Their package manager is just 
> too unweildy to install with and it botched the hell out of my 
> installation on an upgrade.  Anyways, I went back to Ol' Faithful 
> Slackware and got Linux installed.  However, there seems to be a bug 
> with the mouse pointer after KDE starts.  Two vertical lines (some 
> aberration) appear below the mouse pointer.  Sometimes, when I mouse 
> over a window, the lines disappear.  But, they always come back if I 
> mouse over certain window components.  This may be a non-issue, since I 
> want to upgrade to KDE 3.  Just asking if anyone has seen this before.

Are you sure this is a problem with KDE, or could it be X where the cursor
activity is actually executed?  The reason I ask this is that many people
confuse the X Window System that does all the display processing with KDE,
Gnome, or their window manager. What video chipset are you using?

Problem: The X-pointer is somewhat malformed. 

Solution: This can be avoided by using a software-cursor instead of the
hardware-cursor by adding this line to the "Device"-section of
/etc/XF86Config:

   Option "sw_cursor"

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