Bug 1002697

Summary:	Mouse pointer appears black on PuTTY terminals opened from windows 7 guests [mingw-virt-viewer]
Product:	Red Hat Enterprise Virtualization Manager	Reporter:	Bryan Yount <byount>
Component:	mingw-virt-viewer	Assignee:	Marc-Andre Lureau <marcandre.lureau>
Status:	CLOSED ERRATA	QA Contact:	Desktop QE <desktop-qa-list>
Severity:	medium	Docs Contact:
Priority:	medium
Version:	3.2.0	CC:	acathrow, cfergeau, dblechte, marcandre.lureau, mkrcmari, ssekidde, tjamrisk, uril, yeylon
Target Milestone:	---
Target Release:	3.3.0
Hardware:	Unspecified
OS:	Unspecified
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Fixed In Version:	mingw-virt-viewer-0.5.6-9.el6_4	Doc Type:	Bug Fix
Doc Text:	When running a mouse over a PuTTY session with Windows guests, the mouse pointer appears "black". This update improves the cursor contrast, so the cursor is visible on PuTTY sessions with Windows guests.	Story Points:	---
Clone Of:		Environment:
Last Closed:	2014-01-21 14:46:57 UTC	Type:	Bug
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oVirt Team:	---	RHEL 7.3 requirements from Atomic Host:
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Bug Depends On:	998529
Bug Blocks:	1019461

Description Bryan Yount 2013-08-29 17:58:39 UTC

*Note:* Copied from Bug 998529 and opened against the Windows version of virt-viewer, called mingw-virt-viewer.


Description of problem:
On PuTTY sessions the mouse pointer appears black when opened from a windows 7 guest connected via spice.

the issue is described more deeply here: 
http://www.chiark.greenend.org.uk/~sgtatham/putty/wishlist/black-pointer.html

and arises also when connecting via rdesktop (see http://osdir.com/ml/network.rdesktop.user/2005-03/msg00012.html) but it does not arise when connecting via MSTSC or via freeRDP.

Workaround:

     The I-beam mouse pointer that PuTTY uses is not rendered the same in rdesktop as it is in the Windows Remote Desktop client. The workaround is to change the "Text Select" pointer on the Windows machine by going to Control Panel->Mouse->Pointers. I changed it to the beam_r.cur image, which is a beefier version of the I-beam bitmap which does render nicely in rdesktop. 


Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):
   All versions

How reproducible:
   100%

Steps to Reproduce:
1. open putty terminal in in Win7 guest accessed cia spice

Actual results:
   Cursor is black

Expected results:
   Cursor is white

Comment 2 Marc-Andre Lureau 2013-09-12 11:09:10 UTC

(the bug is in post assuming Alon fixes work on windows too, we are missing acks to get this in the msi build)

Comment 4 Tomas Jamrisko 2013-10-10 12:12:54 UTC

*** Bug 1017301 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***

Comment 6 Uri Lublin 2013-10-24 21:23:35 UTC

A fix is pushed upstream -- commit 11ddba4b09bc2e3024cfd1c9f0d78948d004bb40

Comment 8 Charlie 2013-11-28 01:27:03 UTC

This bug is currently attached to errata RHEA-2013:15512. If this change is not to be documented in the text for this errata please either remove it from the errata, set the requires_doc_text flag to 
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Thanks in advance.

Comment 10 errata-xmlrpc 2014-01-21 14:46:57 UTC

Since the problem described in this bug report should be
resolved in a recent advisory, it has been closed with a
resolution of ERRATA.

For information on the advisory, and where to find the updated
files, follow the link below.

If the solution does not work for you, open a new bug report.

http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHBA-2014-0034.html