Cygwin/X: disappering mouse pointer

Remember to start the X system using startxwin.bat not startx. With startx I lose the mouse cursor/pointer when I’m over a X window.

November 15, 2007

Scrolling fast with the mousewheel triggers history back and forth

I’m observing an strange firefox behavior when I scroll the page using the mouse wheel. It goes back and forth through search history. So I googled a little bit and found that the KVM switch that I’m using it’s producing bogus key press event that firefox misinterprets. If you are running Linux the solution is simple as you can modify the X server configuration to ignore those events. But I cannot find a suitable solution for Windows. ...

April 20, 2007