Two weird behaviours in X...

[Tyler Aviss]

The cursor thing might be a video-card issue too? I boot with GDM on
my systems, and the cursor is fine, but when it gets into KDE the
cursor messes up and becomes an ugly mono-colour arrow (as opposed to
one from the "Crystal Cursors" them I chose in KDE.

My issues occured with NVidia cards, in particular I think the 5000
series (5200, 5600, etc)

On Nov 7, 2007 5:36 AM, William O'Higgins Witteman
<william.ohiggins-H217xnMUJC0sA/PxXw9srA at public.gmane.org> wrote:
> I recently installed Debian on a new desktop.  I upgraded to "testing"
> and installed all of the packages that I'm used to using.  During the
> installation, I chose "desktop" system, which by default installs Gnome.
> I don't use Gnome.
>
> I use "update-rc.d -f gdm remove" to get rid of the graphical login, and
> set up my .xinitrc to use Openbox.  All seems fine, but I notice that
> the cursor is the Gnome cursor.  I don't especially care, and things
> seem fine.
>
> Then, for reasons I don't understand xscreensaver doesn't recognize my
> password.  It did a few hours ago, but not now.  Okay,
> Ctrl-Alt-Backspace, test my password (works fine) and restart X.  X
> starts fine, but the cursor doesn't.  If I right-click, I get the
> Openbox menu, but the cursor doesn't appear.  I find no combination of
> commands that lets the cursor come back.  It only returns after a reboot
> (insert deep chagrin).  Does anyone know what's going on?  Thanks.
> --
>
> yours,
>
> William
>
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