Bug 28665

Summary:	Xfce: mouse cursor disappears on Konsole after 5s inactivity and does not reappear until moved outside of window
Product:	Mageia	Reporter:	w unruh <unruh>
Component:	RPM Packages	Assignee:	Mageia Bug Squad <bugsquad>
Status:	RESOLVED INVALID	QA Contact:
Severity:	minor
Priority:	Normal	CC:	davidwhodgins, lewyssmith, ouaurelien
Version:	7
Target Milestone:	---
Hardware:	All
OS:	Linux
Whiteboard:
Source RPM:	konsole-19.04.0-1.mga7.src.rpm	CVE:
Status comment:

Description w unruh 2021-03-27 22:20:14 CET

Description of problem: The mouse cursor disappears on Konsole in XFCE after 5 seconds, and does not reappear if you move the mouse unless you gring the mouse pointer outside the Konsole window. 


Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):


How reproducible: Seems always.


Steps to Reproduce:
Run XFCE window system
Setup Contrast Large Mounse pointer type (although that does not seem to be crucial-- I have tried other mouse pointer types)
Open Konsole window. 
Place mouse cursor onto the Konsole screen not moving. The pointer type changes to an I type
pointer. In 5 seconds it disappears. It does not reappear until you move the mounse (invisibly) onto another non-Konsole window, at which point the pointer reappears. and stays reappeared on the konsole window as well, unless not moved for 5 sec.

The I pointer also appears over text on Googel Chrome, but does not disappear after 5 sec. of inactivity, even on text entry subwindows.

Comment 1 Lewis Smith 2021-03-28 22:00:42 CEST

Mageia 7, Xfce, konsole-19.04.0-1.mga7

Yes, the 'I' mouse pointer in Konsole does indeed disappear after some 5s of cursor inactivity; or, indeed, immediately the keyboard is used. But here, with no fiddling with the cursor definition, it re-appears *within* the konsole window when moved. Same under Mageia 8. This behaviour is normal & correct.

Why w unruh has to move the disappeared pointer outside the konsole window to make it re-appear is baffling. BTAIM this is a really trivial matter. For comparison:
konsole          Goes after 5s if idle or k/b used; re-appears on movement
xfce4-terminal   Does not disappear if idle or K/B used
LXTerminal       Does not disappear if idle or K/B used
Qterminal        Does not disappear if idle or K/B used
gnome-terminal   Stays on idle, but disappears on K/B use; re-appears when moved
mate-terminal    Stays on idle, but disappears on K/B use; re-appears when moved

Tempted to close 'wontfix' because it really does not matter. Prefer a second opinion.
@w unruh :
* Please send the output of (install inxi if you do not have it):
 $ inxi -Sxx -G
in case there is some fancy window management or rendering in use.
* If you have any other terminal program, say what happens with them.
* If you have another desktop, say what happens with konsole under that.

Ever confirmed: 1 => 0
CC: (none) => lewyssmith, ouaurelien
Severity: normal => minor
Source RPM: ?? Konsole? Mouse cursor package? => konsole-19.04.0-1.mga7.src.rpm
Status: NEW => UNCONFIRMED
Summary: mouse cursor disappears on Konsole after inactivity and does not reappear when activity restart. => Xfce: mouse cursor disappears on Konsole after 5s inactivity and does not reappear until moved outside of window

Comment 2 w unruh 2021-03-28 22:34:37 CEST

After about 6 months of up time, I decided to see if logging out and in would fix the rpblem. It does seem to have fixed it.(Note that if it had remained I would not have said it was trivial, but since it seems to have been caused by some age related disease of my login, I at present would advise this report be closed.

Comment 3 Dave Hodgins 2021-03-28 22:57:54 CEST

Closing as invalid. It works here. The I shaped icon can be difficult to see.
In systemsettings5, In the Appearance section under Workspace Theme/Cursors,
I select redglass with a size of 32.

Resolution: (none) => INVALID
Status: UNCONFIRMED => RESOLVED
CC: (none) => davidwhodgins

Comment 4 w unruh 2021-03-28 23:48:09 CEST

One of the reasons I chose the large contrast pointer type 37 pixel was that the I is then large (2 lines high and three characters wide with Bitstream Sans Vera 13pt fount in Konsole.)