Shouldn't the cursor be centred after boot, ubuntu seems to be the only distro that does this. Why can't Fedora? This is especially annoying when logging into gnome using only the keyboard, and the cursor (placed on the top left) triggers the Activities menu.
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Shouldn't the cursor be centred after boot, ubuntu seems to be the only distro that does this. Why can't Fedora? This is especially annoying when logging into gnome using only the keyboard, and the cursor (placed on the top left) triggers the Activities menu.
We don't center the cursor because that would make it interfere with the user list, which is not great. That being said, it should not be at the top left - we place it toward the lower right, some 100 pixels away from the edge.
it always appears in the top left for me too
On Mon, Jan 28, 2013 at 3:10 PM, Matthias Clasen mclasen@redhat.com wrote:
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Shouldn't the cursor be centred after boot, ubuntu seems to be the only distro that does this. Why can't Fedora? This is especially annoying when logging into gnome using only the keyboard, and the cursor (placed on the top left) triggers the Activities menu.
We don't center the cursor because that would make it interfere with the user list, which is not great. That being said, it should not be at the top left - we place it toward the lower right, some 100 pixels away from the edge. -- desktop mailing list desktop@lists.fedoraproject.org https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/desktop
On Mon, 2013-01-28 at 09:10 -0500, Matthias Clasen wrote:
----- Original Message -----
Shouldn't the cursor be centred after boot, ubuntu seems to be the only distro that does this. Why can't Fedora? This is especially annoying when logging into gnome using only the keyboard, and the cursor (placed on the top left) triggers the Activities menu.
We don't center the cursor because that would make it interfere with the user list, which is not great. That being said, it should not be at the top left - we place it toward the lower right, some 100 pixels away from the edge.
Who's "we"? There's no code like that in gnome-settings-daemon, and my mouse is always at the top-left as well. Xorg? gdm?
Hi,
Who's "we"? There's no code like that in gnome-settings-daemon, and my mouse is always at the top-left as well. Xorg? gdm?
I thought that gdm does.
What's going on is, it's not able to query the monitor configuration and so is hitting a "just put it at 0,0" fallback. I've just pushed this change:
http://git.gnome.org/browse/gdm/commit/?id=47b21f6f0d35c684f855fc033df777600...
to make the fallback slightly better (but still not great in the case of a multihead configuration).
We probably need to get GDM out of the pointer handling business, though, and instead move that handling to gnome-settings-daemon or the shell.
--Ray
On Mon, Jan 28, 2013 at 10:24:19AM -0500, Ray Strode wrote:
What's going on is, it's not able to query the monitor configuration and so is hitting a "just put it at 0,0" fallback. I've just pushed this change: http://git.gnome.org/browse/gdm/commit/?id=47b21f6f0d35c684f855fc033df777600... to make the fallback slightly better (but still not great in the case of a multihead configuration).
Nice -- awesome to see such fast response to one these "little paper cut" issues.
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