[opensuse] Cursor disappears, inactive on new windows or edit boxes
Cursor disappears and seems not to know where it is supposed to be -- or which window or position or input boxis supposed to be active. I just installed 13.2, KDE. Example: I opt to open a shell window. Formerly, it opened with the cursor active. Now it opens with the cursor blank (in outline form) and I have to click my mouse to activate the cursor and window. As I am typing along, the cursor will frequently go blank, and I have to click my mouse to reactivate it. This wreaketh havoc with my attempts at speed typing ... Often, but not always, a little search box widget pops up at the top of the window. I'm using KDE, but with some gnome programs like evolution. That little popup search widget looks like something associated with gnome. But again, that does not happen every time. My most frustrating experience was trying to type in a password ... Progress/typing/etc. stopped multiple times. I tried reinstalling 13.2 after that. Didn't help. I can't figure anything in particular that triggers the disappearance. Sometimes it just disappears while I'm not doing anything. I have watch that vi cursor just go blank while I'm thinking what to type next.
From what looking around I've done, I get the impression mine may be a driver conflict, but I don't know how to resolve that.
Thanks for any help. Kathy -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org To contact the owner, e-mail: opensuse+owner@opensuse.org
On 01/19/2015 01:14 PM, vincent@webfresco wrote:
Cursor disappears and seems not to know where it is supposed to be -- or which window or position or input boxis supposed to be active. I just installed 13.2, KDE.
Example: I opt to open a shell window. Formerly, it opened with the cursor active. Now it opens with the cursor blank (in outline form) and I have to click my mouse to activate the cursor and window. As I am typing along, the cursor will frequently go blank, and I have to click my mouse to reactivate it. This wreaketh havoc with my attempts at speed typing ...
Since you seem to be talking about the mouse cursor, it will go blank in a a shell window this is normal. If you go through the setting in KDE you can change various settings for the mouse cursor and also what its focus should do.
Often, but not always, a little search box widget pops up at the top of the window. I'm using KDE, but with some gnome programs like evolution. That little popup search widget looks like something associated with gnome. But again, that does not happen every time.
Perhaps the result of random clicks with the mouse to get it's cursor to reappear. -- Ken Schneider SuSe since Version 5.2, June 1998 -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org To contact the owner, e-mail: opensuse+owner@opensuse.org
On Tue, 2015-01-20 at 08:04 -0500, Ken Schneider - openSUSE wrote:
On 01/19/2015 01:14 PM, vincent@webfresco wrote:
Cursor disappears and seems not to know where it is supposed to be -- or which window or position or input boxis supposed to be active. I just installed 13.2, KDE.
Example: I opt to open a shell window. Formerly, it opened with the cursor active. Now it opens with the cursor blank (in outline form) and I have to click my mouse to activate the cursor and window. As I am typing along, the cursor will frequently go blank, and I have to click my mouse to reactivate it. This wreaketh havoc with my attempts at speed typing ...
Since you seem to be talking about the mouse cursor, it will go blank in a a shell window this is normal. If you go through the setting in KDE you can change various settings for the mouse cursor and also what its focus should do.
Under what circumstances is it normal for a mouse cursor to go blank in an ACTIVE shell/console window? Doesn't that indicate that the window is no longer the active window? I have never had a cursor go blank in an active shell window. Especially not while I'm typing away in "vi" in a file. I am typing, the cursor blanks, and maybe that odd little box opens up or maybe it doesn't, but none of my typing goes into my file. Or I'm just sitting there thinking about what I want to type ... and the cursor goes blank. That has NEVER happened to me before, in years of doing this.
Often, but not always, a little search box widget pops up at the top of the window. I'm using KDE, but with some gnome programs like evolution. That little popup search widget looks like something associated with gnome. But again, that does not happen every time.
Perhaps the result of random clicks with the mouse to get it's cursor to reappear.
Except that clicking with the mouse reactivates the cursor. So no random clicking going on ... Meanwhile. I tried something. I set up a new user. When I was logged in as that user, everything was normal. No more problems. What I finally ended up doing was copying the .kde4 directory of my primary login to another name, shut down, and, when I logged in again, I got a new .kde4 setup ... and no more problems. So. I'm no longer experiencing those odd problems, but I still don't know what happened, what caused the odd happenings, and I'd like to so I can be sure of not making it happen again. Kathy
Ken Schneider SuSe since Version 5.2, June 1998
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