HWCursor?
2008.12.14
Sometimes I wake up to find that the cursor on my workstation has disappeared. And it doesn’t seem to be simply invisible, it’s actually not interacting with the desktop in any way. I can still see the mouse in the list of enumerated USB devices. Generally the keyboard is still working.
One suggestion I keep running across in my normal google searches is to disable HWCursor in xorg.conf. Messed around with that for a few days.
After a lot of tests, it turns out that killing xscreensaver fixes the problem…. no need to restart X.
Lately, the problem has stopped happening, so I am considering that an update to x11-misc/xscreensaver may have fixed the problem.
