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Bug 339383 - Centering of the cursor
Centering of the cursor
Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 327530
Product: gdm
Classification: Core
Component: general
2.13.x
Other Linux
: Normal enhancement
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Assigned To: GDM maintainers
GDM maintainers
Depends on:
Blocks:
 
 
Reported: 2006-04-22 08:28 UTC by Antoine Cailliau
Modified: 2006-04-28 16:58 UTC
See Also:
GNOME target: ---
GNOME version: 2.11/2.12


Description Antoine Cailliau 2006-04-22 08:28:38 UTC 
The cursors centers, at startup, in the middle of the screen resolution and not in the middle of the first screen. So, with dual head, I need to move the cursor of the mouse into the first screen before log in. 

May be the cursor should be centered in the middle of the first screen (the screen  where gdm is showed)
Comment 1 Brian Cameron 2006-04-24 18:34:32 UTC 
Thanks for the bug report.  I'd accept a patch to fix this annoying problem.
Comment 2 Antoine Cailliau 2006-04-24 19:58:08 UTC 
Yes, sure. Do you have any idea which file should I read ?
Comment 3 Brian Cameron 2006-04-24 20:13:37 UTC 
Probably the gdm_wm_center_window function in gui/gdmwm.c.  May also be worthwhile to look over bug 327530.
Comment 4 Antoine Cailliau 2006-04-24 20:31:47 UTC 
Hum, it seems to don't be the correct function because we can't move the gtk window or else we'll have the gdmlogin on the two screens. May be it's an X bug to put the cursor at the "right place"
Comment 5 Brian Cameron 2006-04-28 00:26:26 UTC 
Since this only happens in Xinerama mode, gdm probably needs some extra code to know where the cursor is located in this mode.  Probably not an Xserver bug, just that GDM isn't really being smart about where to place the cursor in this situation, I think.
Comment 6 Brian Cameron 2006-04-28 16:58:24 UTC 

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 327530 ***