Control: retitle -1 gnome-shell: mouse pointer sometimes becomes invisible in Overview Control: reassign -1 src:linux 5.2.17-1 Control: affects -1 gnome-shell Control: forwarded -1 https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=111541
This seems to be a kernel regression, perhaps already fixed in unstable, so I'm reassigning it. On Mon, 21 Oct 2019 at 20:04:57 +0200, Thomas Renard wrote: > The mouse pointer gets invisible on desktop background and the shell > elements after some desktop actions. Application windows have a > full functional mouse pointer. Unfortunately I cannot explain which > situation gets the pointer invisible, probably suspending the laptop and > start it again. > > * Move the mouse pointer around an application window (pointer can be > seen) > * Move the pointer to the background or to the top bar > > Expected: Mouse pointer is still visible > Actual behaviour: Mouse pointer gets invisible ... > There are some ways to force a visible mouse pointer again, like opening > the "change background" dialog. But after some actions (switching between > windows of different programs) the cursor is invisible again. ... > Kernel: Linux 5.2.0-3-amd64 (SMP w/4 CPU cores) > Kernel taint flags: TAINT_OOT_MODULE, TAINT_UNSIGNED_MODULE On Mon, 21 Oct 2019 at 20:01:04 +0100, Simon McVittie wrote: > Could this be <https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/gnome-shell/issues/1165>, > possibly fixed by the patch in > <https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=111541>? > > This might be a bug in libmutter or in the kernel, upstream seem to > be unsure; the regression seems to coincide with upgrading to Linux 5.2. > If you install the older 4.19.x kernel from Debian 10 'buster' and reboot > into that, does this problem disappear? > > I can sometimes reproduce the mouse pointer disappearing when I go to the > Overview (move mouse to top left corner or press Windows key). > > Workaround: do something that should change the mouse pointer, like > moving the mouse over the Search box in the Overview (this is difficult > when you can't see the pointer and have to guess its location from which > window is highlighted). On Mon, 21 Oct 2019 at 21:32:06 +0200, Thomas Renard wrote: > Found this upstream bug too. >¯ > I did it the other way round and installed the 5.3 kernel from unstable > (5.3.7-1). By now the problem does not occur (about an hour working with > this kernel). >¯ > So the solving of the problem might be: waiting for 5.3 in testing ;-)
