10.5.7 and disappearing cross hair cursor (using command+shift+4)

Another instance of 10.5.7 flickering I've found is while performing an Option+drag of a file into a folder that's in the Finder sidebar.

The green 'plus sign copying bubble' curser flickers, the file image itself doesn't flicker but the green copying curser does -- *but only while hovering over the Finder sidebar folder.*

Do you guys see this as well?

Supermoos wrote:
I have the exact same problem, but it also happens in the new safari 4 beta (latest update). I have a wacom intuos 3 tablet, maybe that's the problem, do any of you have tablets or similar?

I don't have any other input device than a mouse connected to my system. The only non standard thing my iMac has is a USB creative X-fi external sound card. The problem manifests itself regardless of any app I have running. See my previous comment; the problem is there when no user application is running at all. I checked my open process list and nothing unusual was listed there either. I had no specific back ground processes or services open.

Barbatto wrote:

The green 'plus sign copying bubble' curser flickers, the file image itself doesn't flicker but the green copying curser does -- *but only while hovering over the Finder sidebar folder.*

Yeah, I see that as well.

More or less the same here, when I just drag a file to the sidebar folder (using only the left mouse button, for a move), the green bubble disappears as soon as the mouse icon hits an edge of the dock. It almost always re-appears when I move the mouse away from the dock again, but sometimes it doesn't come back even when I don't hover over the dock.

With the command-drag (for a copy) there is a noticeable short flicker exactly when I hit the edge of the dock again, but then surprisingly it keeps being visible without any flicker when hovering over the dock. However, when I then move it away from the dock there is the same flicker again when the last pixel of the cursor leaves the dock, but this time it becomes invisible when NOT hovering the dock.

Puzzling...

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It seems the update has been identified with ATI cards and VMWare according to this source

http://www.theregister.co.uk/2009/05/15/mac10_5_7_update_vmwarefusion/

Confirmed. Love it that every Apple update fixes something and introduces another annoying bug instead 😀

I've found a new occurrence of the flickering cursor. When I have a remote X11 window on my Mac's desktop and the X11 cursor is animated, it flickers. I noticed this when starting up a remote instance of firefox (running on debian linux). When a page is loaded, the mouse changes shape into an animated cursor. The cursor flickered in the same way as when taking a screen shot.

Now I don't execute firefox a lot remotely (there is normally very little reason for it), but occasionally I do this because that remote instance of firefox still has a cookie for some login and I'm too lazy to lookup my password for a particular site. Due to the relative low frequency of me doing this, I can't really remember whether the cursor flickered before or not, but I think it's new and thus possibly related.

Anyone has any news on this?

I don't know if the following observation is relevant or helpful but GoLive CS running on Windows XP under VMWare fusion shows the cursor icon to be contained in a black box rather than surrounded with transparency when the cursor sweeps over Toolbox.

Illustrator CS does not do the same.

On this machine with an NVidia card.

I can't claim to have observed it before but CS is a recent install (that really is CS as in CS1).

Screen capture here:

http://ffmomw.bay.livefilestore.com/y1pMRxYF-RIyBeFcHjUKvWSpljLD4ZPQdIBQx3h6kXqs vt-6CrSw7wpWmXcW3oinPfJeqK4OQhX2klko2ItyOluVV1e5U1EC_Wt/090521%2034a.jpg

I have an ATI,RadeonHD2400 and 20 inch imac with same issues. Noticed with 1680x1050 resolution the crosshair almost acts correctly. At 800x600 resolution the problem disappears completely. I use a resolution of 1280x800 and there the crosshair disappears with mouse movement and reappears when the mouse stops.

RM

I got exactly the same problem since I upgraded to 10.5.7. Not Safari 4 related. When I zoom in on the screen with my Mighty Mouse and then try cmd-shift-4, it wil act normally. But then, off course, my screen is all blown up.

I have this problem after the 10.5.7 update on two machines:

2007 20" Alu iMac Radeon 2600
2006 20" White iMac Radeon X1600

Neither run VM Fusion or anything untoward. Both do have Safari 4 beta, if there's any connection.

Alexis2782 wrote:

Neither run VM Fusion or anything untoward. Both do have Safari 4 beta, if there's any connection.

Probably not, I for one have the problem but don't have the Safari 4 beta installed.