[Bug 33183] mouse cursor turns into thin vertical dashed line

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https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=33183

--- Comment #16 from benderamp <benderamp at gmail.com> 2011-11-11 08:31:15 PST ---
Created attachment 53409
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Good and Evil areas

Ok, I think I have some more input on this issue.

Don't ask me how, but once I have somehow noticed, that corrupted mouse cursor
got cured when I moved the mouse though a particular area on the desktop. This
area is located somewhere near horizontal middle of the screen for X axis and
probably 1/4 of the screen from top for Y axis (see attached screenshot).

This assumption of having some magic area which cures the cursor looked much
like true, because many of previous times the mouse was cured after chaotic
movements the mouse here and there around the screen.

So the next time the mouse was corrupted I have just moved it to the suggested
area, moved it slowly here and there inside it and this worked again, so now I
have at least one confirmation of the initial idea.

This also gave me an idea that as soon as there is magic Good area which cures
the mouse once it goes there, there should be also another magic Evil area
which corrupts the cursor when the mouse comes though it. So I have also tried
to find this area by moving the mouse around the screen and even had a success
to corrupt the mouse once (the approximate area is also shown on the
screenshot) - and after this I was able to cure it back with the "Good area"
method, so this is the 2nd confirmation for it.

But I was not able to reproduce corrupted mouse with "Evil area" again at least
for now (the 2nd time I have opened gimp with 1x1 brush and tried to fill the
whole assumed area - you can see it is almost all black and mouse was not
corrupted). So will need more tests here.

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