I´ve got a question concerning my mouse-pointer.

From time to time my mouse-pointer changes to a symbol that represents something like an arrow melted together with a loading-circle. I tried to find out something about it and believe that it means "background activity".

So far so good. But there´s one thing I cannot really explain:

Whenever I open my file-manager pcmanfm in a "normal" way, i.e. by clicking on a desktop-icon or the respective symbol in the task-bar, the window immediately opens - without any mose-pointer activity.

However when I start pcmanfm by clicking the key-combination "WIN-key + e" the window opens as well but with the addition of the "background-activity" symbol. That one can be seen for about 20 seconds and then vanishes.

Can someone help me find out why that is?

Many thanks in advance.

Greetings. Rosika

P.S.: system: Linux/Lubuntu 16.04.4 LTS, 64 bit

I´ve got a question concerning my mouse-pointer.

From time to time my mouse-pointer changes to a symbol that represents something like an arrow melted together with a loading-circle. I tried to find out something about it and believe that it means "background activity".

So far so good. But there´s one thing I cannot really explain:

Whenever I open my file-manager pcmanfm in a "normal" way, i.e. by clicking on a desktop-icon or the respective symbol in the task-bar, the window immediately opens - without any mose-pointer activity.

However when I start pcmanfm by clicking the key-combination "WIN-key + e" the window opens as well but with the addition of the "background-activity" symbol. That one can be seen for about 20 seconds and then vanishes.

Can someone help me find out why that is?

System: Linux/Lubuntu 16.04.4 LTS, 64 bit