keyboard and mouse issues

[Mike Meyer]

On Wed, 18 Jun 2008 23:19:46 +0200
Torfinn Ingolfsen <torfinn.ingolfsen at broadpark.no> wrote:

> Hello,
> 
> On Wed, 18 Jun 2008 14:53:59 -0500
> "Schlechter, Fred" <FRS at MacLeanPower.com> wrote:
> 
> > The mouse pointer disappears when keys are pressed on the keyboard.
> > The mouse pointer reappears only when the mouse is moved or one of
> > the mouse buttons is pressed. This happens only in the console and
> 
> AFAIK, this works as designed. And it has been working like that long
> before 7.0.
> 
> > I really can't say if this is a bug, but it is annoying and this issue
> > did not exist when using a PS2 mouse and keyboard.
> 
> Are you certain about that? I just tested a few systems here, and all
> remove the mouse pointer i console when keys are pressed. Some of these
> systems run FreeBSD 6.x, and one runs 7.0-stable.

In the terminal emulators, this is a function of them rather than
FreeBSD. For instance, xterm turns off the mouse cursor based on the
value of the pointerMode resource; the default behavior is as
described above most of the time. Sure enough, setting it to never
turn off and starting a new xterm makes it never disappear. Other
emulators may well have copied that behavior.

The video card driver may get involved as well; if it has a hardware
cursor and that's enabled, the requests to turn off the cursor might
be ignored. I think I've seen that, but can't be certain.

I'm not sure whether the console emulation does this, but it wouldn't
surprise me.

	 <mike
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