Bug#755760: [neverball] Fails to grab cursor (cursor moves while playing)

[Filipus Klutiero]

Package: neverball
Version: 1.6.0-1
Severity: important

When a level is underway, Neverball 1.5 and prior versions used to grab the mouse cursor. The cursor would become invisible until the level was completed or failed. This is no longer the case after the upgrade to 1.6 on my testing install. The cursor is always visible, and can even leave the window when not playing fullscreen.

Seeing the cursor is an annoyance, but having it leave the window breaks the gameplay (unless someone was trying to make it even harder!), even though it's still possible to roll quite a bit. In fullscreen mode, the bug remains, but doesn't break ball control nearly as much. In fact, I'm not in a position to exclude that ball control works as it should in fullscreen mode.

This is surely the result of the SDL migration (which does fix my problems with mouse handedness and focus, BTW). I'm experiencing this in KDE. I've set severity to important assuming that this affects many but not everyone (in which case, I'd have marked this serious). I have no idea what factors could make only some setups affected. No error is logged on the console.

--- System information. ---
Architecture: i386
Kernel: Linux 3.14-1-amd64

Debian Release: jessie/sid
990 testing debian.mirror.rafal.ca
500 unstable debian.mirror.rafal.ca
1 experimental debian.mirror.rafal.ca

--- Package information. ---
Depends (Version) | Installed
===================================-+-==============
neverball-data (= 1.6.0-1) | 1.6.0-1
libc6 (>= 2.11) | 2.19-7
libgl1-mesa-glx | 10.2.3-1
OR libgl1 |
libjpeg8 (>= 8c) | 8d1-1
libphysfs1 | 2.0.3-2
libpng12-0 (>= 1.2.13-4) | 1.2.50-1
libsdl2-2.0-0 (>= 2.0.0) | 2.0.2+dfsg1-4
libsdl2-ttf-2.0-0 (>= 2.0.0) | 2.0.12+dfsg1-2
libvorbisfile3 (>= 1.1.2) | 1.3.2-1.4


Package's Recommends field is empty.

Suggests (Version) | Installed
========================-+-===========
neverputt |

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