KDE mouse pointer bug

[Marvin Bellamy]

I guessed KDE since the funny lines appeared/disappeared when I passed 
over windows.  BTW, I've got an optical Logitech mouse with wheel.  Just 
guessing my settings, they're something like:

Section "Mouse"
  Device        "/dev/input/mice"
  Protocol      "IMPS/2"
EndSection

I'll try your suggestion when I get home...

uane Attaway wrote:

>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"
>