Xinerama - two mouse cursors!

[azredwing]

Hi all,

I just upgraded to Jaunty. I have a dual-screen setup with an nVidia GeForce 8600, non-free drivers. I'm using Xinerama.

When I move my cursor from one screen to the other, the cursor simultaneously stays on the first screen and begins moving normally on the other screen. The cursor basically sits in the last place it was at before I moved the mouse to the other screen.

Oddly, when I take a screenshot to show the two cursors side-by-side, the one on the inactive monitor disappears (in the screenshot, not on the monitor)

Dunno if I need to file a bug report on this or what. Anyone encounter this?

[|Porsche]

What happens on TwinView?

[azredwing]

What happens on TwinView?

TwinView works fine. I switched to Xinerama because for some reason on TwinView, I couldn't add another panel to the secondary monitor. I think TwinView spans both monitors but recognizes them as one super-monitor. That said, I couldn't drag-and-drop a panel from one monitor to another, nor could I place it directly using gconf-editor.

[canabal]

I am having the same problem.

Does not really bother me, but should be fixed regardless.

[|Porsche]

Thats weird. I have no problem on either Xinerama or TwinView. So far I don't see a difference between the two, they do the same thing, for the only exception that TwinView doesn't make my conky flicker.

What driver are you using? I am using 180.29.

[James_Lochhead]

Save problem here, except I am using separate X screens. I actually quite like it though.

[lime4x4]

same here using 4 lcd panels each as a seperate x-screen

[azredwing]

Thats weird. I have no problem on either Xinerama or TwinView. So far I don't see a difference between the two, they do the same thing, for the only exception that TwinView doesn't make my conky flicker.

What driver are you using? I am using 180.29.

180.37. I can try rolling back; not sure how I would do that though at this instant. I probably won't get around to that until this evening.

[excentric]

Just upgraded to jaunty. Same problem...

[d2globalinc]

Same issue here - Jaunty 64bit Beta w/ latest updates 180.44 Nvidia Driver - 3x Nvidia Geforce 8800GTX's - all screens joined by xinerama have this issue of a duplicate mouse cursor being left behind when you transition the mouse to another monitor..

Found a Bug report here: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+bug/357901

Add your comments if you have the same issue so this gets attention!

Thanks!

Shane Menshik
D2 GLOBAL INC
http://www.d2global.com

[azredwing]

The 180.44 update didn't solve the situation. I ended up switching to TwinView (got panels on both monitors now) but I'll keep checking out the situation.

[TheGolfball]

I'm using 9.04 RC. I have the same problem with Xinerama. One mouse pointer per monitor when desktop is stretched accross both displays. Looks tacky.