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Bug 746594 - Mouse Cursor hidden by top bar and gone in Overlay
Mouse Cursor hidden by top bar and gone in Overlay
Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 763159
Product: gnome-shell
Classification: Core
Component: general
3.14.x
Other Linux
: Normal normal
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Assigned To: gnome-shell-maint
gnome-shell-maint
Depends on:
Blocks:
 
 
Reported: 2015-03-22 00:34 UTC by Gnome-Shell Supporter
Modified: 2017-09-24 14:39 UTC
See Also:
GNOME target: ---
GNOME version: ---


Attachments
Screenshot of lack of mouse cursor in systray drop-down (269.28 KB, image/png)
2015-04-26 22:10 UTC, Faron Anslow
Details

Description Gnome-Shell Supporter 2015-03-22 00:34:00 UTC
When the mouse cursor is in the top bar area, as it enter the area it is no longer drawn and not visible.
In overlay mode, ie. Activites, or setup menu, the mouse cursor is not visible at all. Gray highlighting of the area it hovers over is functional.

PROBLEM: Mouse cursor disappears in various situations
EXPECTED: Mouse cursor to always be visible

Ubuntu 14.10 Gnome-shell 3.14.3 http://ppa.launchpad.net/gnome3-team/gnome3-staging

Hardware: MacBookAir6,2 (early 2014, 13")
Intel Corporation Haswell-ULT Integrated Graphics Controller [8086:0a26] (rev 09)
Comment 1 Faron Anslow 2015-04-26 22:10:02 UTC
Created attachment 302402 [details]
Screenshot of lack of mouse cursor in systray drop-down

Trying to show where the pointer *should* be
Comment 2 Faron Anslow 2015-04-26 22:12:25 UTC
I have this bug as well on two machines with two GPUs. One is an older nvidia and the other is intel 4000 on core i5 both 64bit. Recently upgraded to Ubuntu 15.04 with gnome shell 3.14.4 on both. I'm happy to supply any needed system information and/or will redirect if this is an ubuntu-only bug.
Comment 3 Rui Matos 2015-04-27 10:03:37 UTC
You can try a different distro's live environment (CD or USB) to be sure if this is Ubuntu specific.
Comment 4 major 2016-03-11 14:12:54 UTC
This affects me as well on Fedora 23:

* GNOME 3.18.2
* Xorg 1.18
* Linux 4.2, 4.3, 4.4

I have a Broadwell i7 and I've tried using glamor, sna, and uxa acceleration. The problem happens with each.
Comment 5 Florian Müllner 2016-03-11 14:31:44 UTC
(In reply to major from comment #4)
> This affects me as well on Fedora 23

If this is with mutter-3.18.3-1, can you try updating to mutter-3.18.3-2?
Comment 6 major 2016-03-11 14:39:11 UTC
I will give that a try and report back, Florian. On my system currently:

$ rpm -qa |grep mutter
mutter-3.18.3-1.fc23.x86_64
Comment 7 Florian Müllner 2016-03-11 14:40:22 UTC
(In reply to major from comment #6)
> $ rpm -qa |grep mutter
> mutter-3.18.3-1.fc23.x86_64

Yeah, that's a known issue then, see bug 763159.
Comment 8 major 2016-03-11 14:49:06 UTC
Florian -- mutter-3.18.3-2 is a success!  Thanks so much.
Comment 9 André Klapper 2017-09-24 14:39:56 UTC

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of bug 763159 ***