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Took the plunge: installed Debian on a (relatively) new laptop that had been running (trying to run) Vista. This may be a bug. When I telnet from my Debian system ...
  1. 01-31-2008 #1
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    Loss of Cursor

    Took the plunge: installed Debian on a (relatively) new laptop that had been running (trying to run) Vista.

    This may be a bug. When I telnet from my Debian system into another Linux system and execute a client there that opens an X-window on the Debian system, at telnet completion the cursor vanishes on the Debian desktop. The Debian system runs GDM, the remote system KDE, in case that matters. It fails with xterm as well as the mail client I actually want (kmail). Is there any way to recover the cursor without rebooting the Debian system?

    --Robert Smith
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  2. 02-01-2008 #2
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    This is embarrassing. Yesterday every remote invocation of kmail on the remote machine resulted in loss of cursor on this, the Debian laptop whenever I terminated kmail. Today it works perfectly -- no lost cursor. The only changes made in the meantime were to install lib-pam.doc and abiword. Sorry to bother you.

    Except I think my last question is still a valid one. How do you restore the desktop cursor short of restarting X or rebooting Debian? Is there a command equivalent to "Restore Cursor?"

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