Bug 1315413

Summary:	Mouse cursor vanishes in activity overview or when interacting with activity toolbar.
Product:	[Fedora] Fedora	Reporter:	Alex Markley <alex>
Component:	mutter	Assignee:	Florian Müllner <fmuellner>
Status:	CLOSED DUPLICATE	QA Contact:	Fedora Extras Quality Assurance <extras-qa>
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Priority:	unspecified
Version:	23	CC:	fmuellner, giedrius.slavinskas, jorti, lefred.descamps, otaylor, walters
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Description Alex Markley 2016-03-07 16:34:07 UTC

Description of problem:

When logged into gnome-shell under Xorg on a fully-updated Fedora 23 system, the mouse cursor suddenly becomes invisible when entering into the activities overview, or when interacting with the activities toolbar.

Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):

The problem appears to be caused by the update to mutter-3.18.3-1.fc23

How reproducible:

100% reproducible.

Steps to Reproduce:
1. Log in to gnome-shell.
2. Enter activities overview.
3. Observe mouse cursor has disappeared.

Actual results:

Invisible mouse cursor.

Expected results:

Mouse cursor should remain visible.

Additional info:

I solved this problem for myself by downgrading mutter (dnf downgrade mutter)

This version is running currently without any problems: mutter-3.18.1-4.fc23

Comment 1 lefred 2016-03-07 23:46:09 UTC

I confirm, I had the same problem, I could also not see the cursor on the top menubar.

Downgrading mutter also fixed the problem.

Comment 2 Giedrius Slavinskas 2016-03-08 10:07:30 UTC

Same here, downgrading mutter solves the issue. It is a critical bug for non-tech users.

Comment 3 Bryan Mason 2016-03-08 19:55:09 UTC

This looks like a duplicate of Bug 1315590.

Comment 4 Bryan Mason 2016-03-08 19:58:23 UTC

*** Bug 1315590 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***

Comment 5 Bryan Mason 2016-03-08 20:01:09 UTC

I'm seeing this on a desktop:

00:02.0 VGA compatible controller: Intel Corporation Xeon E3-1200 v3/4th Gen Core Processor Integrated Graphics Controller (rev 06)

and my Lenovo T530:

01:00.0 VGA compatible controller: NVIDIA Corporation GF108M [NVS 5400M] (rev a1)

It was also reported on the following hardware in Bug 131590:

Lenovo M30-70 laptop with i915 graphics (Intel Corporation Haswell-ULT Integrated Graphics Controller).

Comment 6 Juan Orti 2016-03-08 20:20:38 UTC

In my PC with a radeon card I don't have this problem.

# rpm -q mutter
mutter-3.18.3-1.fc23.x86_64

# lspci
01:00.0 VGA compatible controller: Advanced Micro Devices, Inc. [AMD/ATI] Barts XT [Radeon HD 6870]

Comment 7 Alex Markley 2016-03-08 20:26:56 UTC

For reference, this is the hardware configuration I am running which is affected by this problem:

$ dmesg | grep -i macbookpro
[    0.000000] DMI: Apple Inc. MacBookPro12,1/Mac-E43C1C25D4880AD6, BIOS MBP121.88Z.0167.B15.1510261437 10/26/2015

$ lspci | grep -i vga
00:02.0 VGA compatible controller: Intel Corporation Broadwell-U Integrated Graphics (rev 09)

I am happy to provide any additional information as requested.

Comment 8 Florian Müllner 2016-03-10 12:18:31 UTC


*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of bug 1316010 ***