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OS/2, eCS & ArcaOS - Technical => Applications => Topic started by: Martin Iturbide on June 21, 2025, 04:11:07 pm

Title: Mouse Cursor disapear.
Post by: Martin Iturbide on June 21, 2025, 04:11:07 pm
Hello

It happened to me a that I have a miss behaved application (in this case sdlmame with an older SDL12.DLL) that I had to kill with TOP.

The desktop came back, but no mouse pointer is showed. The mouse is working because if I can click randomly it clicks, but I it does not show.

Do you have a technique the get the mouse pointer back without a reboot? The reset the WPS does not help with that.

Regards
Title: Re: Mouse Cursor disapear.
Post by: Dariusz Piatkowski on June 21, 2025, 11:42:54 pm
Martin,

Maybe switching to a full-screen OS/2 window and then back might force WPS/PM to re-initialize the mouse associated stuff?

Heck, a jump into WIN-OS/2 might be a good attempt as well? ...although w/o an active mouse cursor that might be a little bit tougher to navigate to!
Title: Re: Mouse Cursor disapear.
Post by: Pete on June 22, 2025, 09:42:50 am
Hi Martin

Sometimes opening the Text Editor by doubleclicking a text document re-initialises the mouse pointer.


Regards

Pete
Title: Re: Mouse Cursor disapear.
Post by: Jan-Erik Lärka on July 02, 2025, 09:13:47 am
The mouse pointer (image) seen on the screen disappear, but the function still is there.

Move our mouse repeatedly so it en upp in the lower left corner (if xCenter is positioned there), lift the mouse if you have to between movements. The bubble help will appear over the button it hoover.

Click on the X/OS/2-Warp/eCS/ArcaOS-button and use the keyboard to navigate to the Program->Utilities->Text Editor
Once it start successfully as mentioned the mouse pointer image apoear again.

Another way is to try to click on the desktop, press P on the keyboard, Enter, U, Enter, T, Enter... unless there is another folder/program object that start with the letter that you may need to compensate for.