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Bug 688228 - screen: Don't force show a cursor on startup
screen: Don't force show a cursor on startup
Status: RESOLVED WONTFIX
Product: mutter
Classification: Core
Component: general
unspecified
Other All
: Normal normal
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Assigned To: mutter-maint
mutter-maint
Depends on:
Blocks: 687791
 
 
Reported: 2012-11-13 10:01 UTC by Bastien Nocera
Modified: 2012-11-20 17:27 UTC
See Also:
GNOME target: ---
GNOME version: ---

Attachments
screen: Don't force show a cursor on startup (867 bytes, patch)
2012-11-13 10:01 UTC, Bastien Nocera 		rejected Details | Review

Description Bastien Nocera 2012-11-13 10:01:24 UTC 
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Comment 1 Bastien Nocera 2012-11-13 10:01:27 UTC 
Created attachment 228863 [details] [review]
screen: Don't force show a cursor on startup

Instead we let gnome-settings-daemon's cursor plugin
handle the initial visibility of the cursor.
Comment 2 Owen Taylor 2012-11-19 19:08:47 UTC 
I can't see how it works to have both the cursor plugin and Mutter fighting about the cursor - Mutter will reset the cursor back to DEFAULT if any startup notification shows.
Comment 3 Bastien Nocera 2012-11-19 19:42:16 UTC 
(In reply to comment #2)
> I can't see how it works to have both the cursor plugin and Mutter fighting
> about the cursor - Mutter will reset the cursor back to DEFAULT if any startup
> notification shows.

By which time we'll have the cursor properly hidden through XFixes, so even mutter won't be able to show it.
Comment 4 Owen Taylor 2012-11-20 17:09:28 UTC 
Are we sure that there never will be startup notication happening before gnome settings daemon uses FixesHideCursor?
Comment 5 Owen Taylor 2012-11-20 17:27:29 UTC 
Review of attachment 228863 [details] [review]:

Discussed this with Hadess on IRC, and I really don't like the approach where the cursor image on the root window is being controlled by Mutter at some points and g-s-d at other time. I prefer to see the hand-over from the X -nocursor option to FixesHideCursor be done by gnome-session.