unwelcome mouse pointer wrap around: Ubuntu 13.04

[Lennart Sorensen]

On Wed, May 29, 2013 at 09:29:39PM -0400, Stewart C. Russell wrote:
> I tried enabling the nvidia driver on my Ubuntu 13.04 Samsung laptop.
> That was a very, very bad idea. I pretty much had to purge and reinstall
> everything that had to do with X, gnome and Unity.

If you use the packages, that shouldn't have been needed.

If you used the nvidia binary installer, well yes then you get the mess
you asked for.

> One feature remained from my stray away from nouveau land: the
> mouse pointer now wraps from the right side to the left side of the
> screen. There was no explicit option to set this, and there seems to be
> no way of unsetting it in any of the (Unity|gnome|compiz|system)
> configuration options.

I have never seen that (certainly my machine with nouveau doesn't
do that).

> Has anyone successfully managed to tame this issue? I can see that some
> people might like this feature, but not me.

I can't even imagine how you would make it do that in the first place.

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