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unclutter package

  1. Bug #145262
  2. Comment #13

Comment 13 for bug 145262

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In , Aurelien Jarno (aurelien-aurel32) wrote : Re: Bug#493144: Duplicated?

reassign 493144 libsdl1.2debian
severity 227800 grave
merge 227800 493144
reassign 227800 unclutter
severity 237319 grave
merge 237319 227800
thanks

> On Sat, Aug 09, 2008 at 07:11:49PM -0700, Kingsley G. Morse Jr. wrote:
> > I see the same, or a similar, bug.
> >
> > Every few seconds, the mouse pointer in version
> > 0.9.1-5 of qemu jumps to another spot in qemu's
> > window.
>
> As Lucas is a few meters from me, we have been able to progress a bit
> about that. The problem comes from a bad interaction between SDL and
> Xorg. The bug has been actually already reported sometimes ago, but it
> seems it happens on more machines now.
>
> It is reproducible with other SDL applications like planetpenguin-racer.
>
> A workaround is to set the environment variable SDL_MOUSE_RELATIVE to 0.
>

After some more search, we have found this is due to the unclutter
daemon. A bug has already been reported there 4 years ago, so I am
merging the bugs.

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