cursor : weird disappearances

[Tim]

On Sat, 2011-10-15 at 16:14 +0000, Beartooth wrote:
>         Every once in a while, completely unpredictably afaik, the
> cursor suddenly disappears. I have it set to display its position when
> I hit Ctrl; but it doesn't, until I wave the mouse around in huge
> sweeps. Once I start doing that (and continuing to tap Ctrl every few
> seconds) it eventually shows up somewhere at the outer edge of the
> screen. 

I've seen this problem for many years, as you've described the problem,
and I'm configured the same way.  Different mice, USB & PS/2, different
computers, different releases of Fedora.

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