[Openchrome-users] Mouse pointer problems

[Jeff Shrowder]

On 07/06/2013 10:42 PM, James Simmons wrote:

>
> I have seen this before. It is related to the hardware cursor. If you
> enable Option "SWCursor" it will go away. We saw this in the KMS case as
> well. Are you using both outputs; VGA plus something else ?
>

Thank you James,

 From your suggestion, together with a suggestion from the SLforum, have what appears 
to be a solution to my problem.

In /etc/X11/xorg.conf.d I placed a file named 10-openchrome.conf containing the 
following code.

Section "Device"
  Identifier "Builtin Default openchrome Device 0"
  Driver     "openchrome"
#	Option      "HWCursor" "false"   	# [<bool>]
	Option      "SWCursor" "true"    	# [<bool>]
EndSection

Reboot. Success - or so it seems. I've tried out a couple of the applications where 
the problem was previously experienced and the mouse pointer is now behaving normally :-)
At this point I realised that the problem with pointer had been occurring where the 
pointer changes shape, e.g. from arrow-head to hand etc.

I know the commented "SWCursor" "true" line is redundant. I'll probably edit it out 
at some later stage 8-)

Thanks again.


Cheers,

Jeff