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Thinstation - black mouse cursor problem 'software cursor' in xorg.conf
Gheist:
Ok the method we thought would work didn't and would like to try the xorg.conf 'software cursor' possibility. How exactly do we do that? We boot from CD with settings on floppy in our environments. Would we put the xorg.conf on the floppy? Step-by-step instructions would help.
Ok the method we thought would work didn't and would like to try the xorg.conf 'software cursor' possibility. How exactly do we do that? We boot from CD with settings on floppy in our environments. Would we put the xorg.conf on the floppy? Step-by-step instructions would help.
gheist
Please add reference to old question (i forgot it btw)
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Sorry. I thought when we chose related question it would be connected to the original question
https://www.experts-exchange.com/questions/27118407/thinstation-black-mouse-with-2008-R2.html
https://www.experts-exchange.com/questions/27118407/thinstation-black-mouse-with-2008-R2.html
Does the cursor appear like black square or so or terminal server client simply ignores cursor themes and you have to live with basic X11 arrow ?
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Black cursor. I'm not sure what the rest of your sentence means - 'ignores cursor themes' and 'basic X11 arrow'?
What exactly does the setting you suggested to? And where is it? The only thing I can connect to it is a line in the X Server section "X Server section:
X_DRIVER_OPTION1="swcursor
Is this what you are referring to? What is this supposed to do?
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The symptoms are per the user:
The cursor will change from a solid black bar to a broken bar resembling
the letter T. When this happens, the cursor does not always hit the mark we
are aiming for. For example: in this paragraph, if I wanted to
change the word "resembling" because of a spelling error, I would click on
the spot where the change needed to occur but the cursor would go to the
word "the" in the line below instead. Or if there was a sentence
above the desired word, the cursor may go to one of those words instead.
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Do you know of any alternative to Thinstation? Apparently as well the latest Rdesktop resolves the problem. Is there a way I can inject that into Thinstation? Or some other similar product?
What exactly does the setting you suggested to? And where is it? The only thing I can connect to it is a line in the X Server section "X Server section:
X_DRIVER_OPTION1="swcursor
Is this what you are referring to? What is this supposed to do?
+++++++++++
The symptoms are per the user:
The cursor will change from a solid black bar to a broken bar resembling
the letter T. When this happens, the cursor does not always hit the mark we
are aiming for. For example: in this paragraph, if I wanted to
change the word "resembling" because of a spelling error, I would click on
the spot where the change needed to occur but the cursor would go to the
word "the" in the line below instead. Or if there was a sentence
above the desired word, the cursor may go to one of those words instead.
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Do you know of any alternative to Thinstation? Apparently as well the latest Rdesktop resolves the problem. Is there a way I can inject that into Thinstation? Or some other similar product?
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Sorry I'm still not understanding.
What is Xorg?
What is software cursor? (Which begs the question what 'hardware' cursor would be.)
I guess the original question was the black mouse cursor. Have you had that problem? Have you used this fix to resolve it?
These are basic white box workstations with a variety of video cards. Those of them that have hard drives with Windows installed on them do not have this problem using the Windows RDP client regardless of which video card they have. It's the ones using Thinstation that don't seem to work. For example if I were to stick our bootable Thinstation CD in a computer that had a hard drive with Windows installed on it that had no black cursor problems using MS RDP, the same computer would have a problem with the Thinstation RDP client.
What is Xorg?
What is software cursor? (Which begs the question what 'hardware' cursor would be.)
I guess the original question was the black mouse cursor. Have you had that problem? Have you used this fix to resolve it?
These are basic white box workstations with a variety of video cards. Those of them that have hard drives with Windows installed on them do not have this problem using the Windows RDP client regardless of which video card they have. It's the ones using Thinstation that don't seem to work. For example if I were to stick our bootable Thinstation CD in a computer that had a hard drive with Windows installed on it that had no black cursor problems using MS RDP, the same computer would have a problem with the Thinstation RDP client.
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I guess the original question was the black mouse cursor. Have you had that problem? Have you used this fix to resolve it?
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Thanks. Sorry but I think I might have missed the point of the X11 reference originally - what is X11? We are RDP'ng into a 2008 TS with the latest Thinstation CD. Is X11 some kind of Xserver?
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Sorry for turning you into a Linux tutor here but modifying the Thinstation floppy .conf text file is about the limit of my Linux knowledge so a lot of the terms you are using don't resonate with me. We have resolved the problem however by finding the Danish 'build-your-own Thinstation ISO' site as that version of Thinstation had Rdesktop 1.7 which did the trick.
One more Linux question however. Would the XorgX11 section be at all relevant for connecting to a Windows 2008 TS Server? Does Windows 2008 look like an X11/Xserver to Thinstation/Rdesktop?
One more Linux question however. Would the XorgX11 section be at all relevant for connecting to a Windows 2008 TS Server? Does Windows 2008 look like an X11/Xserver to Thinstation/Rdesktop?
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Thanks for the tutoring. It may not have answered my question here but it will be of use to me later I'm sure.
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Resolved situation on my own - not related to Expert's answers. However Expert's advice may be useful for future problems.