So I could finally get my new computer to reboot with ease, and to actually resize the video window during playback; I thought things could simply get better from now on. What a foolish thought that was, for not taking past trends to predict the future.
One of the incredibly entertaining aspects of Indian movies is the imperial edict thou shalt include song and dance at every momenth possible. If it is not the entire village celebrating together with them, the couple of focus would perform their lonely (but highly enjoyable) game around a palm or coconut tree and play hide-and-seek by shifting left and right around the trunk. Looks like my mouse pointer is trying to do something similar between my twin monitors.
I woke up, nudged the mouse, expected the monitors to power back up from their standby mode. I move the mouse around the DVI monitor to do some work, then dragged it over to the db15 monitor (primary) to attend to some windows. Except I couldn't see the pointer at all. Windows knew the pointer was there, highlighting widgets with its slick Aero glow as it tracked the pointer position. But I did not know where it was. This is so unfair; why must I be give only the single choice of the visible spectrum to work with the mouse?? I demand the same privileges as Windows!
Changing pointer themes did not work, so I logged off. The pointer finally became visible in the db15 monitor, so I logged on satisfied, but only to lose it five seconds later when the DVI monitor wouldn't show it. It almost seems like the machine wanted me to restart regularly now that it can. Reboot it was, but at what cost? Hopefully this was a freak graphic bug else i'd be force to destroy my elaborate desktop sessions of a dozen windows every now and then. So much for productivity.
UPDATE 1 Jul:
So in the past few weeks of usuage, if I am working in front of this computer for a whole day, I can expect the mouse pointer to go MIA on one screen three to four times. A mouse pointer for crying out loud. For something that has been in mainstream use for over two decades, it can really puzzle me how such a fundamental piece of user interface computing can just break down and completely stop me from work. I am forced to either sleep or hibernate the machine, if not complete restart, to in order to bring back the mouse pointer. The amount of wind that my sails lose from such simple issues cannot be understated.