Bonjour Aurelien!
Oui, as you wrote,
$ export SDL_MOUSE_RELATIVE=0
worked around the bug, and
# dpkg --purge unclutter
fixed it.
I believe the technical term is... "SWEET!"
I'm in awe of how quickly you and Lucas solved
this.
How did you do it?
Merci beaucoup,
Kingsley
On 08/10/08 05:14, Aurelien Jarno wrote:
> reassign 493144 qemu
> severity 227800 grave
> merge 227800 493144
> 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.
>
> > However, in my case, it happens with a Windows 98
> > (first edition) guest operating system and the
> > "-usbdevice tablet" option didn't help.
>
> That's probably because your guest doesn't not have USB support, and so
> is not able to read the position from the USB tablet device.
>
> > I think most of debian is from the "unstable"
> > distribution.
> >
>
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