Mouse cursor should be hidden before desktop fades to screensaver
Bug #241879 reported by
melat0nin
This bug affects 2 people
| Affects | Status | Importance | Assigned to | Milestone | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| GNOME Screensaver |
Confirmed
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Wishlist
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| One Hundred Papercuts |
Triaged
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Wishlist
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Unassigned | ||
| gnome-screensaver (Ubuntu) |
Triaged
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Wishlist
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Unassigned | ||
Bug Description
This may not be classified properly as a bug, but it's subjective.
At present, the desktop fades to black, then the screensaver comes on. But during that fade, the mouse cursor is still visible onscreen -- creating a white distraction as the screen is fading.
It shouldn't be difficult to hide the cursor at the beginning of the fade, therefore giving the impression that the desktop is very smoothly transitioning to the screensaver.
I'm not sure if the behaviour is specific to the rss-glx screensaver package, or if it's more general to GNOME's treatment of screensavers (gnome-
Ubuntu Release: 8.04
rss-glx: 0.8.1-8ubuntu4 0
gnome-screensaver: 2.22.2-0ubuntu1 0
| Changed in gnome-screensaver: | |
| status: | Unknown → New |
Revision history for this message
| christopherdstamper (christopherstamper) wrote | #1 |
| Changed in gnome-screensaver (Ubuntu): | |
| importance: | Undecided → Wishlist |
| status: | Confirmed → Triaged |
| Changed in gnome-screensaver: | |
| importance: | Unknown → Wishlist |
Revision history for this message
| Vish (vish) wrote | #2 |
| Changed in hundredpapercuts: | |
| assignee: | nobody → Papercuts Ninja (papercuts-ninja) |
| importance: | Undecided → Wishlist |
| status: | New → Triaged |
| Changed in hundredpapercuts: | |
| assignee: | Papercuts Ninjas (papercuts-ninja) → nobody |
| Changed in gnome-screensaver: | |
| status: | New → Confirmed |
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Yeah, this is kinda weird. Should be easy enough to fix, and would help the user experience.