SuSE9.3/KDE3.4.0 Level "b" I find that the cursor disappears from my desktop at seemingly random times. The only way that I have found to restore the cursor is CTRL-ALT-Backspace followed by restarting KDE. The desktop had been running without this problem since 4/22/05. It just started a few days ago. Has anyone else noticed this behavior and found a solution? Thanks in advance. -- Stephen P. Molnar, Ph.D. Life is a fuzzy set Foundation for Chemistry Stochastic and multivariant http://www.geocities.com/FoundationForChemistry
SuSE9.3/KDE3.4.0 Level "b"
I find that the cursor disappears from my desktop at seemingly random times. The only way that I have found to restore the cursor is CTRL-ALT-Backspace followed by restarting KDE.
The desktop had been running without this problem since 4/22/05. It just started a few days ago.
Has anyone else noticed this behavior and found a solution?
Thanks in advance. -- Stephen P. Molnar, Ph.D. Life is a fuzzy set Foundation for Chemistry Stochastic and multivariant http://www.geocities.com/FoundationForChemistry I am running suse 9.3 with an optical mouse via a 2 position kvm switch. I have a similar issue. I don't loose the mouse completely, but it jumps to
On Saturday 16 July 2005 10:16, Stephen P. Molnar, Ph.D. wrote: the side/top/bottom of the screen occasionally, about every 3 min of use. -- John R. Sowden AMERICAN SENTRY SYSTEMS, INC. Residential & Commercial Alarm Service UL Listed Central Station Serving the San Francisco Bay Area Since 1967 mail@americansentry.net www.americansentry.net
On 7/16/05, John R. Sowden wrote:
SuSE9.3/KDE3.4.0 Level "b"
I find that the cursor disappears from my desktop at seemingly random times. The only way that I have found to restore the cursor is CTRL-ALT-Backspace followed by restarting KDE.
The desktop had been running without this problem since 4/22/05. It just started a few days ago.
Has anyone else noticed this behavior and found a solution?
Thanks in advance. -- Stephen P. Molnar, Ph.D. Life is a fuzzy set Foundation for Chemistry Stochastic and multivariant http://www.geocities.com/FoundationForChemistry I am running suse 9.3 with an optical mouse via a 2 position kvm switch. I have a similar issue. I don't loose the mouse completely, but it jumps to
On Saturday 16 July 2005 10:16, Stephen P. Molnar, Ph.D. wrote: the side/top/bottom of the screen occasionally, about every 3 min of use. -- John R. Sowden
I agree, if your using a KVM switch the mouse can become unusable. I try to stick to the CLI interfaces (tty1, tty2, etc.) for that reason. This has definately been discussed before. I don't remember it solutions/workarounds were described. Greg -- Greg Freemyer The Norcross Group Forensics for the 21st Century
On 7/16/05, John R. Sowden wrote:
On Saturday 16 July 2005 10:16, Stephen P. Molnar, Ph.D. wrote:
SuSE9.3/KDE3.4.0 Level "b"
I find that the cursor disappears from my desktop at seemingly random times. The only way that I have found to restore the cursor is CTRL-ALT-Backspace followed by restarting KDE.
The desktop had been running without this problem since 4/22/05. It just started a few days ago.
Has anyone else noticed this behavior and found a solution?
Thanks in advance. -- Stephen P. Molnar, Ph.D. Life is a fuzzy set Foundation for Chemistry Stochastic and multivariant http://www.geocities.com/FoundationForChemistry
I am running suse 9.3 with an optical mouse via a 2 position kvm switch. I have a similar issue. I don't loose the mouse completely, but it jumps to the side/top/bottom of the screen occasionally, about every 3 min of use. -- John R. Sowden
I agree, if your using a KVM switch the mouse can become unusable.
I try to stick to the CLI interfaces (tty1, tty2, etc.) for that reason.
This has definately been discussed before. I don't remember it solutions/workarounds were described. Actually I was providing as much pertenant data as possible. I didn't know
On Saturday 16 July 2005 14:39, Greg Freemyer wrote: that the kvm was an issue. I use it because my other desktop accesses a DOS network. I'll bypass the kvm and see what happens, thanks :( . -- John R. Sowden AMERICAN SENTRY SYSTEMS, INC. Residential & Commercial Alarm Service UL Listed Central Station Serving the San Francisco Bay Area Since 1967 mail@americansentry.net www.americansentry.net
John, On Saturday 16 July 2005 14:17, John R. Sowden wrote:
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I am running suse 9.3 with an optical mouse via a 2 position kvm switch. I have a similar issue. I don't loose the mouse completely, but it jumps to the side/top/bottom of the screen occasionally, about every 3 min of use. --
Well, there are a lot of KVM switches out there, but the ones I've used have not caused mouse problems. In particular, they do not cause the kind of symptoms often associated with disconnecting and reconnecting the mouse (without a KVM switch). I believe that's because they're well enough designed to present continuous signal or impedance levels to the mouse port on the system to which they're attached even when the mouse itself is connected to another computer.
John R. Sowden
Randall schulz
John,
On Saturday 16 July 2005 14:17, John R. Sowden wrote:
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I am running suse 9.3 with an optical mouse via a 2 position kvm switch. I have a similar issue. I don't loose the mouse completely, but it jumps to the side/top/bottom of the screen occasionally, about every 3 min of use. --
Well, there are a lot of KVM switches out there, but the ones I've used have not caused mouse problems. In particular, they do not cause the kind of symptoms often associated with disconnecting and reconnecting the mouse (without a KVM switch). I believe that's because they're well enough designed to present continuous signal or impedance levels to the mouse port on the system to which they're attached even when the mouse itself is connected to another computer.
John R. Sowden
Randall schulz
On Saturday 16 July 2005 16:13, Randall R Schulz wrote: that was supposed to be every 30 (thirty) minutes. it is an irritant, not a 'mouse panic'. (kvm=keyboard/video/mouse). mine is the 25. one from the swaps, with cables attached, a button, and software hooks for keyboard switching. -- John R. Sowden AMERICAN SENTRY SYSTEMS, INC. Residential & Commercial Alarm Service UL Listed Central Station Serving the San Francisco Bay Area Since 1967 mail@americansentry.net www.americansentry.net
Stephen, On Saturday 16 July 2005 10:16, Stephen P. Molnar, Ph.D. wrote:
SuSE9.3/KDE3.4.0 Level "b"
I find that the cursor disappears from my desktop at seemingly random times. The only way that I have found to restore the cursor is CTRL-ALT-Backspace followed by restarting KDE.
The desktop had been running without this problem since 4/22/05. It just started a few days ago.
Has anyone else noticed this behavior and found a solution?
Here's a guess / speculation: If you have a video card that can drive more than one monitor, have it configured for dual-monitor operation but have only one monitor connected, the mouse can move onto the phantom monitor and disappear from view. I've experienced this from time to time when I configure a new system or new video card and Sax2 senses the dual-monitor capability and enables it by default. Before I realized what's going on, it's rather disconcerting. So, could this be the problem? What make and model video card are you using? How many monitors?
Thanks in advance. -- Stephen P. Molnar, Ph.D.
Randall Schulz
On Sat, 2005-07-16 at 10:16, Stephen P. Molnar, Ph.D. wrote:
SuSE9.3/KDE3.4.0 Level "b"
I find that the cursor disappears from my desktop at seemingly random times. The only way that I have found to restore the cursor is CTRL-ALT-Backspace followed by restarting KDE.
Is the kvm your using soft or hard? My IOGEAR has logic which uses a double tap on <scroll lock> other kinds use software. What did you update in recently? -- ___ _ _ _ ____ _ _ _ | | | | [__ | | | |___ |_|_| ___] | \/
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