[Bug 226264] New: Mouse cursor often changes size spontaneously

[Erik Logtenberg]

https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=226264

           Summary: Mouse cursor often changes size spontaneously
           Product: kde
           Version: unspecified
          Platform: Fedora RPMs
        OS/Version: Linux
            Status: UNCONFIRMED
          Severity: normal
          Priority: NOR
         Component: general
        AssignedTo: unassigned-bugs at kde.org
        ReportedBy: erik at logtenberg.eu


Version:            (using KDE 4.3.5)
OS:                Linux
Installed from:    Fedora RPMs

Description of problem:

The mouse cursor spontaneously changes size from the relatively small
Bluecurve-mousecursor to around twice as big. When hovering around, the mouse
cursor then is "big" when above windows started after the size-increase, but
remains "normal" when above windows that were already there.

Then I go to the Mouse settings in the KDE System Settings, I choose a
different cursor, apply, and then change back to Bluecurve, apply. This causes
the mouse cursor to be "normal" again, above every window. Well, for some time
at least.

Because after some time, sometimes a few hours, sometimes a couple of minutes,
it'll start over again.


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

It's Fedora 12 on x86_64. I'm running several Fedora-boxes and I notice that
this issue is only affecting the workstation with a 30" monitor (2560x1600 at 60Hz
on a DELL 3008WFP), so maybe the screen resolution has something to do with it.
I noticed that during the boot process there is also initially a bigger mouse
cursor, but during some flickering the mouse changes to normal, before the
login screen.

I have an nVidia GPU, and I'm using Noveau.
01:00.0 VGA compatible controller: nVidia Corporation Device 0659 (rev a1)

How reproducible:

Well I'm not sure. On my workstation it's just "use the computer" and it'll
happen at random intervals. On any other Fedora 12 box I haven't seen this
issue.
It happens especially whenever I start a new application, for instance I open
konqueror. The cursor will then be big when hovering over konqueror, but stay
little when hovering over other applications.

Additional information:

I found this bug that might be related:
https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=196555
Also I filed this bug at Fedora:
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=558272 but they told me to file the
bug here instead.

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