The mouse is not visible in graphical mode

The context menu appears in a various screen places after moving mouse and clicking on the mouse button. Hence the mouse movement is probably sensed.

The jnode.font.renderer = new results displaying garbage rather than text. The experimental rendering should not necessary work, but this information may provide a hint, what is going wrong.

I do not have the mouse either in the graphical mode it would definatly be easier if we could see the mouse even if it is a low resolution pixelated mouse icon

Could you inform about your system? It could be a matter of finding a mouse driver.

Note, You have to use our OS cup and not the Java cup, as it's trademark of Sun.

I have been working recently on the problem with there being no mouse icon and I have created an icon that anyone can use. I have the code for the icon to follow the mouse! I will put it right here. (It has the main method for an example)
import javax.swing.*;
import java.awt.*;
import java.awt.event.*;

public class LayeredPaneDemo2 extends JPanel
implements MouseMotionListener
{
private JPanel layeredPane = new JPanel();
private JLabel javaLabel;

public LayeredPaneDemo2()
{
final ImageIcon icon = createImageIcon("java cursor.jpg");
addMouseMotionListener(this);
javaLabel = new JLabel(icon);
add(javaLabel);
}

protected static ImageIcon createImageIcon(String path)
{
java.net.URL imgURL = LayeredPaneDemo2.class.getResource(path);
return new ImageIcon(imgURL);
}

public void mouseMoved(MouseEvent e)
{
// to set the icon right below the mouse cursor
javaLabel.setLocation(e.getX()-javaLabel.getWidth()/2,
e.getY()-javaLabel.getHeight()/2);
}
public void mouseDragged(MouseEvent e)
{
javaLabel.setLocation(e.getX()-javaLabel.getWidth()/2,
e.getY()-javaLabel.getHeight()/2);
}

public static void main(String[] args)
{
JFrame frame = new JFrame("Java Cursor App");
frame.setDefaultCloseOperation(JFrame.EXIT_ON_CLOSE);

JComponent newContentPane = new LayeredPaneDemo2();
frame.add(newContentPane);

frame.pack();
frame.setVisible(true);
}

}

If you're using QEmu to run jnode, there is a workaround using the -vnc option of qemu.

Most vnc viewers show a dot for the mouse position if the underlining server does not have a mouse set.

That is enough to make the system useable, but I also wonder why the mouse doesn't appear. The boot shows a logitech with scroll wheel detected.

hai,
you done a good job....but why you use the picture of the SUN's logo??......

I have just tried the recent release and was deeply impressed by how fast it boots (less then 8 seconds). The mouse cursor, however, stays invisible...

My mouse shows in /etc/X11/xorg.config as:
Section "InputDevice"
Identifier "Configured Mouse"
Driver "mouse"
Option "CorePointer"
Option "Device" "/dev/input/mice"
Option "Protocol" "ImPS/2"
Option "Emulate3Buttons" "true"

Hence, it should be "Kernel 2.6 and USB configuration mouse" (see Linux questions).

The most frequent reason for the mouse cursor not being visible is that your graphic card is not supported and the VGA driver gets used when you run startawt. The mouse cursor will be visible only if the underlying graphic card and the related JNode driver have support for hardware cursor. Unfortunately the baseline VGA driver doesn't have such functionality (yet) and it has a few other issues too.

Here is a picture that we could use for the mouse all that will be left is to make the code for it which may be harder than making the picture.

There is lot of things that's been done since that bug has been reported.
Especially, I wrote a SoftwareCursor which work with any graphic driver implementing FrameBufferAPI.

I am marking the bug as fixed.
If you can reproduce again that bug, then reopen it.

Automatically closed -- issue fixed for two weeks with no activity.

Really closing it!