NoVNC Console session - Double arrow head cursor with FireFox - THEN LOCAL cursor changes shapes - BUT REMOTE cursor stays an arrow head. Repeatable !!!

[Kevin Komara]

So I use FireFox as my primary browser.  I am also using ProxMox as my Virtual Machine Hypervisor.  ProxMox uses NoVNC as one of the methods to view the console of a VM Guest.  It works - BUT when I access a NoVNC Session with Firefox - there are 2 cursors (See File 2Cursors).  A local cursor and a remote cursor.  I do NOT have this issue of 2 cursors with ANY other browser that I have tried (Chrome, IE, Edge, etc.).  All OTHER browsers other than FireFox - there is ONLY a remote cursor when mouse in within the VM Guest Window.   I have had to live with 2 cursors in normal VNC in the past in other applications, so that would not have been too big of an issue... BUT - there is a bigger weird issue.  The guest I am accessing using NoVNC in ProxMox is running Ubuntu.  Ubuntu is running fine and I can access the console fine with NoVNC - and the local and remote cursors are generally the same shape - an arrowhead pointer.  BUT then when I re-size the window of one of the Ubuntu programs I am running under CROSSOVER/Wine, the REMOTE and LOCAL cursors change shape to reflect that I am hovering over an edge of a window - but then when I move the cursor to some other location on the screen, the REMOTE cursor changes back to arrowhead pointer, but the LOCAL cursor stays the RESIZE shape.  Once the shape of the LOCAL cursor and REMOTE cursor are different the LOCAL Cursor is now stuck with the WRONG cursor shape.  So in my attached file I had hovered the right edge of a window and dragged it a bit to make it smaller.  When I started BOTH LOCAL and REMOTE cursors were arrowhead pointers.  When I hovered over the right edge of the window - BOTH pointers changed to reflect that I was hovering over an edge.  THEN when I move the mouse pointer to a neutral location - the REMOTE pointer went back to an arrowhead, BUT the LOCAL pointer stayed stuck at a DOUBLE ENDED Horizontal Arrowhead (See File ChangedLocalCursor).  The ONLY way I have been able to get the mouse pointer back to normal arrowhead when in this window is to restart the ProxMox VM Guest Ubuntu session - which of course restarts the NoVNC server within that session.

I know this is a weird issues - but it drives me NUTS !!!

[Pierre Ossman]

Let's have the discussion on the issue you also reported so we don't
have duplicate information:

https://github.com/novnc/noVNC/issues/1014

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