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Bug 750186 - Mouse cursor hides in terminal, unable to disable this "feature"
Mouse cursor hides in terminal, unable to disable this "feature"
Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 725342
Product: gnome-terminal
Classification: Core
Component: general
3.16.x
Other Linux
: Normal enhancement
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Assigned To: GNOME Terminal Maintainers
GNOME Terminal Maintainers
Depends on:
Blocks:
 
 
Reported: 2015-05-31 21:16 UTC by Alexander von Gluck IV
Modified: 2015-05-31 22:01 UTC
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Description Alexander von Gluck IV 2015-05-31 21:16:46 UTC 
One of the last biggest annoyances with Gnome 3.x is the "disappearing cursor trick"

While some people like this (I would assume those who only have one window open on their desktop), anyone who keeps a large number of windows open across multiple desktops has likely begun to play the "find the cursor" game.

If gnome thinks the 16px wide cursor is really such a bother to terminal work, could there at least be a setting (gconf or gui) to disable this "feature"?
Comment 1 Alexander von Gluck IV 2015-05-31 21:21:48 UTC 
Exploring the current behavior more, at the moment you move the cursor in the window and it remains hidden... shouldn't the cursor re-appear after moving?

gnome-termial 3.16.2

You can open the about window for the terminal even... you move the mouse cursor into the gnome terminal and it disappears.  Any way you look at it gnome-terminal seems broken.
Comment 2 Debarshi Ray 2015-05-31 22:01:01 UTC 

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of bug 725342 ***