Mouse flickers between game and desktop cursors in Civ 4

juanbobo · Post by **juanbobo** » Tue Aug 02, 2011 4:10 am

Don't know if this is a game-specific problem, but in Civilization 4 the mouse flickers between the game and desktop cursors, any help would be appreciated...

perryh · Post by **perryh** » Tue Aug 02, 2011 9:13 pm

"juanbobo" <[email protected]> wrote:

Don't know if this is a game-specific problem, but in Civilization
4 the mouse flickers between the game and desktop cursors, any
help would be appreciated...

I doubt it's a game-specific problem, or a Wine problem, or even a
Linux problem, because I occasionally see the same kind of behavior
in a pure X11 program called "xpdf" -- in both Linux and FreeBSD
(which uses a completely different kernel than Linux). I suppose it
is some kind of strange X11 bug that both Wine (when running Civ 4)
and xpdf manage to provoke.

And no, I have no idea what causes it or how to go about fixing it.

juanbobo · Post by **juanbobo** » Wed Aug 03, 2011 2:02 am

Hmmm, I didn't have this problem a couple weeks ago, that could be. Thanks for your response

lbm · Post by **lbm** » Thu Aug 04, 2011 7:05 am

Could also be a problem with xinput2 as in bug 27779.

If the problem presists you may wanna try building Wine with "./configure --without-xinput2" until bug 27779 is sorted out.