GNOME Bugzilla – Bug 774236
No mouse cursor in magnifier when using wayland
Last modified: 2016-11-24 20:32:11 UTC
The mouse cursor disappeared, and the only way to see it is to move it while repeatedly pressing a modifier key (ctrl or alt or shift). See here: https://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?id=219165 I'm on ArchLinux, I have the latest GNOME version available there: gnome-shell 3.22.2 mutter 3.22.2
Can you reproduce this? Is the cursor invisible already when you log in to an empty desktop? Are there any related messages in the journal?
I can't *not* reproduce it, actually. It happens every time, and I haven't found a workaround yet (apart from repeatedly pressing CTRL to briefly see the cursor). When GDM starts, the cursors works perfectly. Once I enter my password and login, the pointer vanishes. The journal is not showing errors, apart from some "evince-thumbnailer" stacktraces (apparently related to gnome-documents)
(In reply to William Di Luigi from comment #2) > I can't *not* reproduce it, actually. It happens every time, and I haven't > found a workaround yet (apart from repeatedly pressing CTRL to briefly see > the cursor). What does pressing ctrl do? Did you enable the locate pointer feature in gnome-tweak-tool? Just to be sure, this is on a wayland session, right? Do you know the last mutter version where it worked?
> What does pressing ctrl do? Did you enable the locate pointer feature in gnome-tweak-tool? I did not enable the locate pointer feature, I just press CTRL (or ALT, or SHIFT...) because it shows the pointer for a very brief moment, I'm not sure why. I think other keys also work (maybe the arrow keys) but I can't verify at the moment since I temporarily moved to XFCE. > Just to be sure, this is on a wayland session, right? Yes, if I do ALT+F2 and I type 'r' I get an error saying that I'm on wayland. > Do you know the last mutter version where it worked? I remember this started after I did a system upgrade, but I'm sure mutter didn't get an update at that time. I tried to downgrade some of the "suspects" which were mesa, mesa-libgl and linux, but that didn't work.
I just updated mutter (3.22.2-1 -> 3.22.2+1+g5c46094-1) and the issue persists :(
I finally managed to track down the issue. I had the "universal access" menu in the upper right corner, with the magnification entry enabled. I switched it from ON to OFF and my life changed. The cursor works. I now don't need to switch between two DEs anymore. After 13 days of suffering, I am now free :)
(In reply to William Di Luigi from comment #6) > I finally managed to track down the issue. Thanks! With that info, I'm able to reproduce the issue, so updating the status accordingly.
Thanks for taking the time to report this. This particular bug has already been reported into our bug tracking system, but please feel free to report any further bugs you find. *** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of bug 754806 ***