Weird mouse cursor problem after installing XFCE4

Andrew Konosky TerranAce007 at comcast.net
Sun Aug 15 00:12:43 UTC 2004


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?





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