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theapodan

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From: Virginia, USA

Registered: 2008-10-21

Posts: 116

Mouse cursor corruption w/ compiz+nvidia

I have this problem that I need help with:

I want to play around with compiz, but I'm getting a mouse cursor glitch.  When dragging windows the mouse cursor is surrounded by a square of of garbage, and the cursor glitches and/or disappears when it mouseovers links in a webpage:

Here's my Xorg.0.log:
http://pastebin.com/raw.php?i=QBruXJ11

Here's my nvidia-bug-report.sh output:
http://pastebin.com/raw.php?i=R0JcbQBC

Brief overview of the computer:
AMD Phenom II x3
Geforce GTS 250 512 MB
Arch x86-64, up to date with nvidia-260.19.36-2
Launching compiz from fusion-icon

This problem appears similar to:
https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+sour … bug/175075

What I've tried:
Specifying in xorg.conf:
HWCursor True
HWCursor False

Specifying in "Workarounds" in ccsm:
Force Sync.. between X and GLX on

Other compiz settings:
Indirect rendering
Loose binding

Any ideas?

Alexmar

Member

Registered: 2010-10-08

Posts: 19

Re: Mouse cursor corruption w/ compiz+nvidia

I have had similar issues because of Indirect Rendering and Loose Binding options.
Try combining them differently. The only idea I can contribute with now.

Last edited by Alexmar (2011-02-20 20:19:52)

theapodan

Member

From: Virginia, USA

Registered: 2008-10-21

Posts: 116

Re: Mouse cursor corruption w/ compiz+nvidia

I figured out the cause of the problem:

I use the redglass mouse cursor theme with size 48 because my vision isn't the best.

However, any cursor size above 40 causes the glitching.  40 and under is ok.

I assume that there is some constraint in the nvidia driver or X on the mouse cursor size.

So now the questions becomes, is this a bug, or is there some setting I'm missing that solves this problem?