Why the busy mouse cursor is not showing in VNC session ?
Environment
- Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6
- tigervnc-server-1.1.0-16.el6.x86_64
Issue
- When starting an application in GNOME (i.e. Firefox), the mouse pointer should turn in a spinning icon (animated).
- However in stead of this animated pointer, there is no pointer shown at all.
tigervnc-server
not displaying animated cursor.- Unable to see waiting cursor state if any process progress running.
Resolution
- A request to resolve this issue is filed and it's being tracked in following RedHat Bugzilla : 1212460
[Workaround]
- Downgrade
tigervnc-server
totigervnc-server-1.0.90-0.17.20110314svn4359.el6.x86_64
.
Diagnostic Steps
- Below are the steps to reproduce the issue:
- On RHEL6.6 system install
tigervnc-server-1.1.0-16.el6.x86_64
. - As a user start a vncserver:
$ vncserver
- Connect to the VNC session with a client.
- Start
Firefox
from the GNOME panel. - Watch the mouse pointer disappear until
Firefox
has started (if the VNC client option "Show dot when no cursor" is set, a square dot will be shown)
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