Slávek Banko composed on 2015-12-05 14:18 (UTC+0100): > Felix Miata wrote: >> Fresh Jessie installation about a week ago, Trinity added tonight. Using >> startx rather than any DM. Mouse can be used to select and click, but no >> way to tell where pointer is until it hovers something that changes on >> hover. Same problem in IceWM. Booting openSUSE Leap instead, pointer works >> normally in IceWM. Both evdev and mouse input drivers are installed. Google >> can't find anything helpful except WRT *buntu, rsyslog, arm or raspberry >> pi. Anyone here had this happen and/or know a fix? > This reminds me the behavior of Ubuntu 14.04.3 (Trusty with kernel and Xorg > from Vily) in a virtual machine. You can try in Xorg settings give for your > video card option: Option "HWCursor" "off" After clicking send I did some more searching and found this workaround functional, but constitutes breakage of xorg automagic. I have other machines that use this same Intel 945G/ICH7 chipset, so it's hard to imagine why this is needed here but not elsewhere, nor in openSUSE 13.1/KDE4 or openSUSE Leap/IceWM or Mageia 5/KDE4 on same machine. I've never before on any post-XFree86 installation needed to turn off HWCursor. Naturally as the problem is same in IceWM, this must be a Jessie problem, not a TDE or hardware problem. -- "The wise are known for their understanding, and pleasant words are persuasive." Proverbs 16:21 (New Living Translation) Team OS/2 ** Reg. Linux User #211409 ** a11y rocks! Felix Miata *** http://fm.no-ip.com/