wine users - Feb 2010 - mouse pointer disappears in the window of apps under win

Hello, I am just starting to use Wine

Simplest example: under Ubuntu Application > Wine > Configure Wine: The
Wine Configuration window comes up. If I move the mouse into the window (tabs or
anywhere except the top title "Wine Configuration") the mouse pointer
disappears.

Wine > Program > Accessories > Notepad: no way to see the pointer if
the mouse is moved beneath the "Untitled - Notepad" strip

My system: Ubunto 9.10, Compaq Armada 1750 laptop, 320MB

Thanks in advance

guy_c wrote:
> Simplest example: under Ubuntu Application > Wine > Configure Wine:
The Wine Configuration window comes up. If I move the mouse into the window
(tabs or anywhere except the top title "Wine Configuration") the mouse
pointer disappears.
Sounds like broken Wine. Try upgrading to the latest Wine version (atm it's
wine-1.1.39).

Gert van den Berg wrote:
> On Wed, Feb 24, 2010 at 14:29, guy_c Wild guess: Try disabling Desktop
effects?

Can you please tell how do I do that?

Gert van den Berg wrote:
> On Wed, Feb 24, 2010 at 19:42, guy_c 
> I wouldn't expect it to be enabled on an older PC....
> 
> Gert

indeed it is disabled

guy at guy-desktop:~$ free
             total       used       free     shared    buffers     cached
Mem:        315292     307696       7596          0      10588      81676
-/+ buffers/cache:     215432      99860
Swap:       923696     185208     738488

When I installed Ubuntu, I let it reformat the 60GB hdd and set up the spaces
itself (w/o my intervention)

I suppose that the failure to allocate trigged a swap, freed some ram which
finally allowed the allocation after what it stopped displaying the failure
message and did run winecfg