Sometimes KDE does not show the mouse

[Ralf Habacker]

On Monday 07 June 2004 22:39, Abhijeet Bisain wrote:
> Sometimes when i start KDE on Windows XP, it does not show me the mouse
> arrow. It still lets me use the mouse, i can click on menu buttons, select
> text etc, but i just cannot see the arrow while the mouse is in any of the
> kde windows.
Does this happens also with other x applications or only with kde ? 
>
> This doesn't happen all the time.
>
> Another problem i saw once when i had connected to my computer over
> remote-desktop is that the dcopserver_shutdown.exe was taking 95% of the
> CPU. It kept running till i killed it.

This may be caused by internal threading problems of the cygwin dll. I have 
heard that it helps to use another cygwin package release (newer or older) or 
to try a cygwin dll snapshot from the cygwin website. 

Ralf