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Re: [SLE] lost mouse cursor
  • From: Patrick Shanahan <ptilopteri@xxxxxxxxx>
  • Date: Sat, 28 Oct 2006 16:02:24 +0000 (UTC)
  • Message-id: <20061028160217.GM15606@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
* Primm <lynn@xxxxxxxxxxxx> [10-28-06 11:42]:
> Switching from KDE to the text console and then back again loses my
> mouse cursor. I've tried rcxdm restart, dropping down to 2 then back
> to 5. . . The only way I can get the mouse back is by rebooting. I
> feel like a windoze user!

I have seen mouse support in a text console, gpm, cause this.

Try in the text console, just before returning to X,
rcgpm restart
or
rcgpm stop

or, perhaps from X in xterm as root.

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