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  Disappearing cursor Alan Browne <alan.browne@FreelunchVideotron.ca> - 2014-12-27 11:27 -0500
    Re: Disappearing cursor Lloyd  E Parsons <lloydp21@live.com> - 2014-12-27 10:32 -0600
    Re: Disappearing cursor Jolly Roger <jollyroger@pobox.com> - 2014-12-27 16:33 +0000
      Re: Disappearing cursor Alan Browne <alan.browne@FreelunchVideotron.ca> - 2014-12-27 12:31 -0500
        Re: Disappearing cursor Jolly Roger <jollyroger@pobox.com> - 2014-12-27 17:32 +0000
    Re: Disappearing cursor George Kerby <ghost_topper@hotmail.com> - 2014-12-28 10:33 -0600
    Re: Disappearing cursor Alan Browne <alan.browne@FreelunchVideotron.ca> - 2014-12-29 10:32 -0500
    Re: Disappearing cursor Nelson <nelson@nowhere.com> - 2014-12-30 09:11 -0500
      Re: Disappearing cursor Alan Browne <alan.browne@FreelunchVideotron.ca> - 2014-12-31 08:59 -0500
        Re: Disappearing cursor Nelson <nelson@nowhere.com> - 2015-01-01 09:21 -0500
    Re: Disappearing cursor Oregonian Haruspex <bob_davis_retired@yahoo.com> - 2015-01-02 17:47 -0800

#67887 — Disappearing cursor

For about 20 seconds the cursor disappeared on my iMac screen.  It would 
show on the side screen.

After going back and forth a half dozen times it suddenly reappeared ...

-- 
<< Among Broad Outlines, conception is far more pleasurable
    than “carrying [the children] to fruition.”
    Sadly, “there’s a high infant mortality rate among
    Broad Outlines—they often fall prey to Nonstarters.” >>
                       "Bestiary of Intelligence Writing" - CIA

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#67888

On 2014-12-27 16:27:32 +0000, Alan Browne said:

> 
> For about 20 seconds the cursor disappeared on my iMac screen.  It 
> would show on the side screen.
> 
> After going back and forth a half dozen times it suddenly reappeared ...
> 
> -- << Among Broad Outlines, conception is far more pleasurable
>     than “carrying [the children] to fruition.”
>     Sadly, “there’s a high infant mortality rate among
>     Broad Outlines—they often fall prey to Nonstarters.” >>
>                        "Bestiary of Intelligence Writing" - CIA

I've seen that a few times, fortunately not many.  Damned irritating!!

-- 
Lloyd

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#67889

On 2014-12-27, Alan Browne <alan.browne@FreelunchVideotron.ca> wrote:
>
> For about 20 seconds the cursor disappeared on my iMac screen.  It would 
> show on the side screen.
>
> After going back and forth a half dozen times it suddenly reappeared ...

Applications in Mac OS have the ability to change and obscure the
cursor, and may do so erroneously.

-- 
E-mail sent to this address may be devoured by my ravenous SPAM filter.
I often ignore posts from Google. Use a real news client instead.

JR

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#67890

On 2014.12.27 11:33 , Jolly Roger wrote:
> On 2014-12-27, Alan Browne <alan.browne@FreelunchVideotron.ca> wrote:
>>
>> For about 20 seconds the cursor disappeared on my iMac screen.  It would
>> show on the side screen.
>>
>> After going back and forth a half dozen times it suddenly reappeared ...
>
> Applications in Mac OS have the ability to change and obscure the
> cursor, and may do so erroneously.

I've never seen this before.

Caveat - when launching WinXP in Fusion, the cursor disappears until 
WinXP gets to the point of setting up a cursor, but CMD-Tab to any other 
app restores it.

At the time, today, it happened I was in Thunderbird.

-- 
<< Among Broad Outlines, conception is far more pleasurable
    than “carrying [the children] to fruition.”
    Sadly, “there’s a high infant mortality rate among
    Broad Outlines—they often fall prey to Nonstarters.” >>
                       "Bestiary of Intelligence Writing" - CIA

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#67891

On 2014-12-27, Alan Browne <alan.browne@FreelunchVideotron.ca> wrote:
> On 2014.12.27 11:33 , Jolly Roger wrote:
>> On 2014-12-27, Alan Browne <alan.browne@FreelunchVideotron.ca> wrote:
>>>
>>> For about 20 seconds the cursor disappeared on my iMac screen.  It would
>>> show on the side screen.
>>>
>>> After going back and forth a half dozen times it suddenly reappeared ...
>>
>> Applications in Mac OS have the ability to change and obscure the
>> cursor, and may do so erroneously.
>
> I've never seen this before.

I've seen it plenty - even in classic Mac OS. How long have you been
using Macs?

-- 
E-mail sent to this address may be devoured by my ravenous SPAM filter.
I often ignore posts from Google. Use a real news client instead.

JR

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#67918

On 12/27/14 10:27 AM, in article
5sednfp7jYZpQAPJnZ2dnUU7-b2dnZ2d@giganews.com, "Alan Browne"
<alan.browne@FreelunchVideotron.ca> wrote:

> 
> For about 20 seconds the cursor disappeared on my iMac screen.  It would
> show on the side screen.
> 
> After going back and forth a half dozen times it suddenly reappeared ...

Is your screen sharing on and your sig other having fun with you from
another room?

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#67954

On 2014.12.27 11:27 , Alan Browne wrote:
>
> For about 20 seconds the cursor disappeared on my iMac screen.  It would
> show on the side screen.
>
> After going back and forth a half dozen times it suddenly reappeared ...

Happened again while in Thunderbird.  This never happened before and TB 
has not been updated in a long time.

Pointing to another app (on side screen) and clicking fixes it.

-- 
"Your net worth to the world is usually
  determined by what remains after your
  bad habits are subtracted from your good ones."
                                   Benjamin Franklin

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#68012

On Sat, 27 Dec 2014 11:27:32 -0500, Alan Browne wrote
(in article <5sednfp7jYZpQAPJnZ2dnUU7-b2dnZ2d@giganews.com>):

> 
> For about 20 seconds the cursor disappeared on my iMac screen.  It would 
> show on the side screen.
> 
> After going back and forth a half dozen times it suddenly reappeared ...
> 
> 

What do you mean by "side screen"?  I have a 42" LED TV attached to a 
MacBook Pro running SL as a media center.  The cursor frequently 
disappears from both screens.  It seems to go off into the ether on the 
sides of the two screens as if they were much larger then they actually 
are.  Moving around the track pad in random directions will eventually 
bring it back on to one of the two screens. Mostly I see this with the 
Finder and VLC because they are the apps I run most frequently.  I have 
the TV arranged above the the Macbook Pro and the appropriate 
configuration set up in the Monitors Preference Pane.

I have only seen this behavior when a second screen is attached.

-- 
Nelson

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#68035

On 2014.12.30 09:11 , Nelson wrote:
> On Sat, 27 Dec 2014 11:27:32 -0500, Alan Browne wrote
> (in article <5sednfp7jYZpQAPJnZ2dnUU7-b2dnZ2d@giganews.com>):
>
>>
>> For about 20 seconds the cursor disappeared on my iMac screen.  It would
>> show on the side screen.
>>
>> After going back and forth a half dozen times it suddenly reappeared ...
>>
>>
>
> What do you mean by "side screen"?  I have a 42" LED TV attached to a
> MacBook Pro running SL as a media center.  The cursor frequently
> disappears from both screens.  It seems to go off into the ether on the


Say I'm working on my main screen (iMac,27") and suddenly, on that 
screen, no matter where I point (various apps), the cursor is invisible.

If I move towards the side screen (mail, messages, calendars, etc.) then 
the cursor appears and when I come back to the main screen the cursor is 
normal again.

I don't recall this happening in the past - at least not as 
persistently.  (Within one app sure, but move the focus off of that app 
to another and it's solved.  Now it's related to screen space).


-- 
"Your net worth to the world is usually
  determined by what remains after your
  bad habits are subtracted from your good ones."
                                   Benjamin Franklin

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#68070

On Wed, 31 Dec 2014 08:59:42 -0500, Alan Browne wrote
(in article <R4mdnZg-3JLTnDnJnZ2dnUU7-KWdnZ2d@giganews.com>):

> On 2014.12.30 09:11 , Nelson wrote:
>> On Sat, 27 Dec 2014 11:27:32 -0500, Alan Browne wrote
>> (in article <5sednfp7jYZpQAPJnZ2dnUU7-b2dnZ2d@giganews.com>):
>> 
>>> 
>>> For about 20 seconds the cursor disappeared on my iMac screen.  It would
>>> show on the side screen.
>>> 
>>> After going back and forth a half dozen times it suddenly reappeared ...
>>> 
>>> 
>> 
>> What do you mean by "side screen"?  I have a 42" LED TV attached to a
>> MacBook Pro running SL as a media center.  The cursor frequently
>> disappears from both screens.  It seems to go off into the ether on the
> 
> 
> Say I'm working on my main screen (iMac,27") and suddenly, on that 
> screen, no matter where I point (various apps), the cursor is invisible.
> 
> If I move towards the side screen (mail, messages, calendars, etc.) then 
> the cursor appears and when I come back to the main screen the cursor is 
> normal again.
> 
> I don't recall this happening in the past - at least not as 
> persistently.  (Within one app sure, but move the focus off of that app 
> to another and it's solved.  Now it's related to screen space).

Yeah, my problem seems to be related to running an external TV screen.  
I have another MBP running the same OS and apps and don't recall ever 
seeing the problem.  Maybe you could write an Applescript to invoke the 
Accessibility cursor controls and change the size or something.  Then 
you could assign the script to a hotkey.  I'm surprised someone hasn't 
developed a "find cursor" app.

-- 
Nelson

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#68107

On 2014-12-27 16:27:32 +0000, Alan Browne said:

> 
> For about 20 seconds the cursor disappeared on my iMac screen.  It 
> would show on the side screen.
> 
> After going back and forth a half dozen times it suddenly reappeared ...

That's just another one of the damned bugs in OS X that Apple has 
refused to acknowledge or fix for several years now.  The solution is 
easy enough - whizz your mouse "up" a bunch and click - any click on 
the menu bar will bring your mouse cursor back into this dimension 
again.

Good luck.

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