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Old 07-18-2011, 12:40 PM   #1
PurduePete
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Mouse disappearing after waking up


I'm running Fedora 13 and I've been using Linux for nearly 10 years and I've never seen this problem before.

Anytime my server machine resumes after falling asleep, the mouse cursor doesn't reappear. I know it's the cursor and not the mouse because I can still click on stuff. I can even "see" where the mouse is because it highlights buttons and such. I can even press Ctrl to make the animation that shows where the mouse cursor is. If I reboot the server, the cursor reappears (but only until the server falls asleep again).

I've seen some posts talking about editing the xorg.conf file, but I'm having troubles locating mine. It should be in /etc/X11/, but instead there's a folder called xorg.conf.d, but it doesn't have the xorg.conf file either. I suppose that should be more alarming, but for some reason I seem to remember reading somewhere that xorg had made some changes in their config file structure for one or two versions before switching back. Perhaps I made that last part up, I don't know. I do know that I can't be rebooting my server every 30 minutes.

I can post logs, screenshots, etc. if that's helpful.
 
Old 07-18-2011, 08:35 PM   #2
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Current X does not use xorg.conf by default, but you can create one.

https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/How_to_create_xorg.conf
 
Old 07-19-2011, 05:51 AM   #3
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That seems to have worked. Adding the xorg.conf file that contained the HWCURSOR OFF bit. Thank you, frankbell.
 
Old 07-19-2011, 08:10 PM   #4
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Wow. Cool.

You are most welcome.
 
  


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