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#231 Mouse cursor stays as loading icon after opening a file
I am running Xfe 1.42 in Ubuntu 16.10 with jwm. If I double click on a file to open it (I've seen this for PDFs, archives, and text files, probably affects all types), the mouse cursor in Xfe is stuck as the loading icon (the watch) even though there is no CPU activity from Xfe.
This is probably an issue with jwm because it works well on Ubuntu / Xubuntu and other derivatives.
Hello, is it possible to re-open this issue or discuss it a bit further? I've used xfe for a very long while on FreeBSD with evilwm, and everything worked as expected. But I recently moved to Debian on the same machine using a setup as similar as possible (same Xorg, same evilwm. same xfe, same dot files, etc), and I get the spinning wheel issue described above. So I think there must be something else going on that's not necessarily linked to the window manager? Thanks!
Hi, ugrnm. Have you found a fix for this? I have the same issue with xfe 1.44. I run a very minimal Tiny Core Linux laptop with Xorg and fluxbox. When I double-click on any file in xfe to open it, cursor gets stuck as the loading icon (which looks like a watch) even though the file opens quickly in the appropriate application. Running top in a terminal does not show any process hogging CPU or RAM.
By the way, if I move the mouse cursor out of the offending xfe window then the normal icon (arrow) shows up. Moving mouse cursor back to anywhere inside the offending xfe window and it turns into the loading icon (watch) again.
Last edit: Bruno Dantas 2021-10-25
I found a solution. Launch xfe, then:
Edit -> Preferences -> General -> uncheck "Notify when applications start up"