My mouse cursor flickers when baudline is recording and its driving me crazy! How do I make it stop?
The flickering of the mouse cursor (arrow) is caused by the new Xorg software cursor. While the new software cursor is very pretty with its anti-aliasing and alpha blended drop shadow it is drawn and managed by software in the video driver. When placed in front of moving video the cursor will flicker. Unfortunately this flaw is inherent in this type of design, it is not the sort of thing that can be fixed. The better method of drawing a mouse cursor is the way it has been done for decades, in hardware on the video card. If you want to get rid of the flicker then you are going to have to go into the Control Panel and disable the software mouse cursor. Another problem of the software cursor is that it consumes CPU cycles. Since the cursor is small the number of cycles isn’t that great but it does add up. In fact disabling the software cursor will result in the gain of about 3 or 4 baudline FPS (frames per second) on a typical low end machine.
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