[Bug 27779] Desktop mouse pointer always visible in Steam games

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http://bugs.winehq.org/show_bug.cgi?id=27779

--- Comment #43 from Brandon Howard <FinalCrisisSX at Hotmail.com> 2011-07-28 09:24:51 CDT ---
(In reply to comment #41)
> Though there isn't anything about why this was so rushed in wine source since
> almost nobody knows for sure when xinput2 will be released to most stable
> versions of Linux distributions.

Xinput2 has been in most stable distributions for quite some time, afaik.
According to http://wiki.winehq.org/Bug6971 Xinput2 is in X.org 7.5, which uses
xorg-server 1.7.0. This was released in late 2009
http://www.x.org/wiki/Releases/7.5 . A quick search suggests this was included
in Ubuntu 10.04, Lucid Lynx - we are on 11.04. Most other distros have likely
had it for a while now too, minus perhaps Debian stable (though I didn't bother
to look in that case). 

The only thing distributions are waiting for is when the bug -fix- for xinput2
that affects -some- games in wine will be released.
https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=30068   this bug, to be specific.
I don't know if it's related to this cursor issue, but I doubt it. It is fixed
upstream and will be released with xorg-server 1.10.4 according to the bug
report. On one of the other pages on the same site, it said 1.10.4 is scheduled
for release I think 6 weeks after 1.10.3, which came out early this month,
july.. the 8th or something of the sort. That bug doesn't affect all games,
just some of them. I wouldn't be surprised if it was included in this or the
next release cycle for most distributions. If not, it is probable that it will
be available via backports or 3rd party PPA's. The latter is especially likely
-- look how much stuff people have posted already. The only setback might be
whether or not the proprietary video drivers support it that quickly --
although as I understand it, there is a way around this sometimes with certain
options in the xorg config files (IgnoreABI / IgnoreAPI or some such?). The
wine devs included workarounds as I understand it in more recent versions of
wine to work around this bug in the meantime, which had worked for me, but not
perfectly for others.

..In trying not to go off-topic here, in short: this cursor quirk for most
games has been suggested by others to be an xi2 issue, but it is unlikely to be
an issue that is held back by distributions' adoption of xinput2, as most
probably already have it, and are only waiting on a minor (unrelated?) bug fix.
Perhaps one of the next releases of Wine will do. At worst, it will be
installable through backports or PPA's not too terribly long from now, provided
the proprietary video drivers work with it or can be worked around.

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