xfce No Mouse Pointer at Log-In Screen

[ellanios82]

On 11/14/2015 12:48 AM, Ralf Mardorf wrote:
> On Sat, 14 Nov 2015 00:31:39 +0200, ellanios82 wrote:
>>   with openSUSE Tumbleweed : Several times recently there is No
>> Mouse-Pointer at xfce lightdm Log-In Screen.
>>
>> - sometimes xfce has frozen my desktop system , at  "xfsettingsd" :
>> necessitating Power-Off .
>> ........
>>
>> update : i thought troubles had gone away , but now they are
>> repeating again
>>
>>   . . . have a suspicion that perhaps the log-out option to
>> "Save session for future logins" may play a role?
> The lightdm greeter has nothing to do with the state that is saved or
> not saved by the XFCE4 session logout, since lightdm greeter runs before
> the Xfce4 session is started. The display manager allows to start other
> sessions too. Assumed you have e.g. KDE or GNOME installed, you could
> chose to start KDE or GNOME sessions too.
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>
  - believe the greeter gives me the choice of ICE W.Manager
  { IF the mouse-pointer is working }

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  thanks