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2009-12-03, 22:00
When launching XBMC, the OS X mouse cursor is replaced with the XBMC mouse cursor. This cursor dissappears after a few seconds of incativity.
However, when I wake up the Mac from sleep, I get the OSX mouse cursor, and this cursor does not go away when inactive.
This is really annoying - I have to move the cursor to the bottom corner trying to hide it, but still it's visible...
(I'm using latest build)
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The problem is with the OS unfortunately - a whole bunch of stuff decides to show the cursor when various frameworks start up.
Unfortunately this means that SDL is in a state where we don't know whether the cursor is shown or not.
What I think we need is an OS X-specific cursor shown test so that we can hide it for good.
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I tried to disable the mouse in XBMC, but the OS X mouse cursor keeps coming back. It's extremely annoying when it appears on the middle of the screen, since I don't have a mouse easily available on my HTCP.
I never had this problem with Plex, so it should definitively be possible to fix...
I didn't test the new beta/RC1 - if this is fixed there let me know.
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i have the same problem
after wake-up the mouse is always there
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Plex uses the "hit the problem with a hammer" solution - it asks the mouse to hide every 10 seconds.
We'd prefer a more elegant solution, though I suspect that may be difficult.
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I find that changing XMBC from full screen to windowed and back makes the mouse cursor disappear. Not a great solution, but it works for me.
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The code is apple-internal and thus may stop working at any time. Also, the underlying problem is that many apple services go and pop the mouse pointer up during their startup routines - there's nothing stopping them also changing the cursor back...
Unfortunately, I think doing the "hit it with a hammer" approach is the only one that is viable.
Personally I just move the mouse into the corner of the screen and leave it there, as my mac doesn't do anything other than run XBMC.
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Ever since I first started using xbmc I've had this problem and infact it was one of the reasons that I even first considered plex as an alternative. I was told the same thing, plex hits nail with the hammer, but common guys, it's a method that works. I'm sure there are other hammer approaches in xbmc code for a lot of different things, so I can't see your staunch refusal to implement this fix, at least until you figure out the mythical more elegant approach.
I find lots of annoyances with plex and consider xbmc much better in many different ways, but there are plenty of times I get completely frustrated juggling windows switching to different desktop and back,minimize maximize, move cursor, lots of times it refuses to hide and I just end up getting completely frustrated and using plex. As for plex telling mouse to hide every 10 seconds, in all my time of using plex I have never ever seen the cursor so whatever they're doing must work.
Please for the sake of your software dont be stubborn and implement this already. If you haven't found the elegant solution yet I doubt you will in the future.
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Why not plop the cursor in the corner like Jmarshall said? It was my first thought. It seems like a nice easy 2 second fix. I assume the cursor disappears on apples like it does on window when you push it to the bottom corner.
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some users use remote connections to do stuff on the machine. Then when launching xbmc the cursor can endup anywhere.
For me using a Panasonic TV, the TV goed in to some kind of standby mode when not receiving any signal. Then OSX decides to pop-up a cursor when resuming.
So every time the xbmc blankes the screen the cursor pops-up when resuming. Very annoying
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A decent solution may be for XBMC to remember the cursor position and then move the cursor to the bottom right. When the mouse pops up again it's not an issue then.
When XBMC is to restore the system mouse we restore it back to where it should be.
Alternatively we ALWAYS move the mouse to bottom right (assuming mouse isn't enabled) when in fullscreen mode.
