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On on of my desktops the mouse cursor pointer keeps getting disassociated with the mouse. You can see that the mouse is moving, when tabs and buttons highlight as you move the mouse around but the pointer stays locked in one position one the screen.
When this happens is not always consistent, but one scenario is. This scenario happens when i go to phpMyAdmin and run an "import". I always lose it then.
What us the make/model of the computer and of the mouse? Have you tried testing with a different mouse? (If the mouse is failing, no amount of mucking about with software will fix this.) If there is a touch pad or equivalent, does that still work properly?
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OK, this is still not stable. Once I get a boot where the cursor is working, seems stable, but I might have to run 2-4 reboots to get a session where the cursor is stable.
Reboot always have to be "HARD" reboots. "reboot now" does not make it. Something is holding in cache that knocks the cursor out and only the hard reboot clears that!
Worked ok for about 3 hours today and now nothing gets me a stable session!
Was noticing that whenever either Mozilla app of Firefox or Thunderbird starts up this is worse, so made sure I got those shutdown before rebooting. That's no longer helping
Trying to find solutions on this via phone really sucks! Either can't see the results page or see so little none of it makes sense!
Really need help bad on this and has to be a CORE level bug!
Since on Kubuntu, not on "lightdm", so the restart on lightdm kills my desktop with no recovery. I think my DT is Plasma so would need restart on that!
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