On Sat, 2004-08-14 at 19:12, Andrew Konosky wrote: > I installed XFCE from source and then added the /etc/X11 files to put it > into the sessions menu, and the desktop works with no errors, but my > mouse cursor is acting funny now. When I log in for the first time on > any desktop program, it is fine, but when I log out, the cursor is > displayed in one spot, but the system thinks it is slightly up and to > the left or right. It 'moves' differently every time, and I have to move > the cursor around a button until I see it highlight because just > pressing it won't work! Sometimes it goes away when I log in, sometimes > not until I log out, and sometimes I have to restart X to get rid of it, > but it keeps messing up and is pissing me off! > > I tried removing the /etc/X11 entries I made to take XFCE4 out of the > sessions menu, but that didn't do any good. The only other thing I > modified was the rpm installation for dbh-1.0. The xffm and xcalendar > packages wouldn't compile because I didn't have bdh-1.0, but I did an > rpm -qa|grep bdh and found it was installed, so I unistalled it then > reinstalled it, then the packages compiled. > > For some reason, I don't know if it is related or not, my rcd red-carpet > daemon just stopped working and started crashing, so I uninstalled and > reinstalled the rpms, then started the rcd daemon with > /etc/rc.d/init.d/rcd start, and now it works again... > > I hope I didn't screw something up with the XFCE4 install, but I spent > half an hour compiling the huge amounts of source code, so I don't want > to uninstall it right away until I figure out what is wrong. How should > I go about fixing this? Andy, If you are going to use the CVS version of XFCE4, you should be prepared for some level of instability. It is a pre-release version and some things may not work or may not work fully. The fact that you are using RC may introduce some new issues, as I am not aware of anyone using the CVS version of XFCE and RC together. Then again, that may only be a red herring. If you want to continue to use CVS, may I suggest that you subscribe to the xfce4-dev list at: http://lunar-linux.org/mailman/listinfo/xfce4-dev where you can pose questions to the membership, which includes the key developers. That way, if there are bugs, the reports get to the right folks. I did a search of the past few months of the archive and did not see any posts relating to mouse issues. I have not had any mouse/cursor related problems and for me, the CVS version has been fairly stable. That being said, there are a few panel plug-ins that are not yet updated to the new code base and may cause panel lockups, if they even build/install at all. There is also the possibility that recent CVS commits could introduce new issues. I have not updated in a few days. If you would rather use a stable release version of XFCE4, remove the CVS version and install the 4.0.6 RPMS using the instructions in the FN article that I referenced earlier. 4.0.6 is the current release stable version. HTH, Marc Schwartz
