GNOME Bugzilla – Bug 781294
Cursor appears on login screen before any mouse movement in 3.24.1
Last modified: 2021-07-05 13:51:22 UTC
openQA testing of the GNOME 3.24.1 update for Fedora 26 indicates there's a change in behaviour on the login screen. With 3.24.0 and all previous GNOMEs, the cursor does not appear on the login screen until the user moves the mouse. With 3.24.1, the cursor is immediately visible in the centre of the screen when GDM starts. Compare: https://openqa.stg.fedoraproject.org/tests/96198#step/_graphical_wait_login/4 (before the update is installed) https://openqa.stg.fedoraproject.org/tests/96198#step/_graphical_wait_login_2/5 (after the update is installed) This doesn't really break anything, but it's an unexpected behaviour change, so I figured I'd mention it.
Guessing mutter
Ping - anyone got anything on this one? It's pretty trivial, but it's now broken *two* openQA tests that I have to workaround :) It's definitely not GDM, because it also happens to gnome-initial-setup in the pre-GDM mode (when no user account exists).
Did https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/gnome-shell/issues/157 fix this?
No, but it may very well have unbroken the tests (without knowing what those tests actually consist of). The commit didn't change *when* the cursor appears on the screen, but *where* - namely a position that won't affect the default selection in the user list.
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