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Sticky cursor in XFCE

Asked by Tommy Pollák

When the displays of XFCE have been fully initiliazed there is a picture of an arrow cursor on the mouse in the middle of the displays. This arrow stays on top of every window.
How can I avoid this, not very serious but irritating.
Ubuntu 14.10, XFCE 4.10 on a Dell XPS 502

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actionparsnip (andrew-woodhead666) said : 		#1

Try using the guide on OMGUbuntu to install the Intel video driver, may help.

Also test RAM using Memtest86 from Grub

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Tommy Pollák (tpollak) said : 		#2

I installed the Intel Graphics Installer for Linux (Ubuntu 14.04 32-bit). Simple.
Then I started it:
Checking ... OK
Retrieving ... OK
Checking distribution - Distribution not supported

So I am stuck.

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Manfred Hampl (m-hampl) said : 		#3

"Distribution not supported"????

What is the output of

uname -a
cat /etc/lsb-release

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Tommy Pollák (tpollak) said : 		#4

~/.../2014$ uname -a
Linux xxxxx-XPS 3.16.0-24-generic #32-Ubuntu SMP Tue Oct 28 13:13:18
UTC 2014 i686 i686 i686 GNU/Linux
~/.../2014$ cat /etc/lsb-release
DISTRIB_ID=Ubuntu
DISTRIB_RELEASE=14.10
DISTRIB_CODENAME=utopic
DISTRIB_DESCRIPTION="Ubuntu 14.10"

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Tommy Pollák (tpollak) said : 		#5

A change of the driver for GF108M (GeForce GT 540M) from X.Org X server to NVIDIA binary driver version 331.89 from nvidia-331 solved the problem.
However I am not sure that this does not introduce other problems.