Version: unspecified (using KDE 4.6.4) OS: Linux When launching an application (especially applications that don’t resign the startup feedback aka bouncing cursor) and then resuming desktop effects while the bouncing cursor is visible leaves it at your mouse pointer forever. You can only remove it by temporarily disabling that thing in systemsettings → notifications. When another application starts, you will get two independent bounce things. Startup Helper Effect enabled. Reproducible: Always
makes sense
*** Bug 278883 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
*** Bug 329906 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
Gave it a try. I do not think, this is a bug in the effect. The original bouncing stuff is not exited, ie. you got two bouncers: the original bouncing window as well as the bouncing icon in the compositor - latter ends as expected, but the original one apparently does not notice that it lost selection and goes on forever. ("proof": suspend compositing, icon continues to bounce) It's not requred to re-login, run "kcmshell4 launch" and disable feedback stops the boucing and re-enabling bouncing will not continue it. Now we need to figure what usually controls this thing.
@Martin Is this still the case? I can't reproduce the bug.
This must be fixed. The problem was caused by us having two places with the startup feedback functionality (one for compositing, one for no compositing). Nowadays we only have the composited startup feedback, thus the problem must be resolved.