centre cursor after boot

Bastien Nocera bnocera at redhat.com
Mon Jan 28 14:21:14 UTC 2013


On Mon, 2013-01-28 at 09:10 -0500, Matthias Clasen wrote:
> 
> ----- Original Message -----
> > Shouldn't the cursor be centred after boot, ubuntu seems to be the
> > only
> > distro that does this. Why can't Fedora?
> > This is especially annoying when logging into gnome using only the
> > keyboard, and the cursor (placed on the top left) triggers the
> > Activities menu.
> 
> We don't center the cursor because that would make it interfere with
> the user list, which is not great. That being said, it should not be
> at the top left - we place it toward the lower right, some 100 pixels
> away from the edge.

Who's "we"? There's no code like that in gnome-settings-daemon, and my
mouse is always at the top-left as well. Xorg? gdm?



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