Is this an X problem or mouse problem?

[Deron Meranda]

On Thu, 20 Jan 2005 15:53:13 -0600, Tom Cross <tomc at cloudnet.com> wrote:
> Just installed a bunch of new Dell 4600 computers with fresh installs of
> Fedora Core 3 all with USB optical mice.  All computers have been
> updated with all the updates-released packages.
> 
> Almost everyday someone comes back to their desk and finds they have no
> mouse cursor!

Are they locking their screens when they are away.  What
Xscreensaver modules are being used?

You might try configuring Xscreensaver to just blank the
screen rather than running a graphical saver program; and
see if that makes a difference.

I too have seen the mouse pointer completely disappear on
one of my FC3 systems; but it's a PS/2 mouse and it only happened
when I had a program like gqview (which was dropped in FC3)
was up in full-screen mode and then I let the screensaver
kick in.  Also, I could never get the pointer back without
actually killing my X session.  I figured it was a bug in gqview.

-- 
Deron Meranda