Re: Problem losing mouse pointer visibility

["Larry Hall (Cygwin X)" <reply-to-list-only-lh-x at cygwin dot com>]

On 06/22/2007, Damien Cymbal wrote:
> I am looking for any ideas on how to either resolve or debug this problem 
> to the next level.  I am currently using 6.8.99.901-4 of XWin, although I 
> have had the following problem through several cygwin updates now.
>
> I am using XWin to start an XDMCP session to an Ubuntu box running a GNOME 
> desktop via gdm.  The current version of Ubuntu is 7.04 although I have had 
> this problem going against 6.10 and 6.06 as well.
>
> Everything runs fine for me for some intermittent amount of time and then I 
> inevitably wind up losing the visibility of the mouse pointer in the X 
> server. 

<snip>

This is a known problem.  The current work-around is to go to the "X" icon
in the task bar, right click on it, and select the option to restore the
cursor (I forget the precise wording).

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