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vince.82

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Registered: 2015-08-06

Posts: 5

Mouse cursor glitch on xfce

Hi all
I have a macbook (retina) and running arch on it. On last update, my cinnamon somehow screwed up (I'll setup a different topic about it) and I defaulted back to xfce.
Now when I plug/unplug an external display the cursor icon disappears, replaced by some rectangular glitch of roughly the same size. Mouse works, although almost invisible, and I am able to use it, but it's very annoying.
Log out and back in from xfce does not solve it. The cursor stays screwed up. Restarting lightdm does not solve it either.
The only thing that does the trick is rebooting.

What should I do to force xfce to redraw the cursor correctly?
What process/log should I check?

vince.82

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Registered: 2015-08-06

Posts: 5

Re: Mouse cursor glitch on xfce

have not found a solution yet. Help?

Da_Coynul

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From: United States of America

Registered: 2010-10-02

Posts: 85

Re: Mouse cursor glitch on xfce

I posted a workaround on my blog: https://linux4tw.wordpress.com/2016/05/ … n-xubuntu/

The blog post was written for a different distro but should be easily adapted to Arch - my preferred distro, powering my home workstation and HTPCs for years

Last edited by Da_Coynul (2016-06-04 02:34:49)

phaxf

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Registered: 2021-04-27

Posts: 1

Re: Mouse cursor glitch on xfce

Hi I've got this issue with Intel HD Graphics videocard and found a solution changing on Interface the Escale from the 1x Standard to 0,9

Using the interface go to Start Menu->Hardware Manager... then choose monitor and select scale on X and on Y  fields to 0,9.