Bug 1010977 - no cursor in login screen on Plugable UD-160-M mutiseat device
Summary: no cursor in login screen on Plugable UD-160-M mutiseat device
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Status: CLOSED ERRATA
Alias: None
Product: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7
Classification: Red Hat
Component: xorg-x11-server
Version: 7.2
Hardware: Unspecified
OS: Unspecified
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Target Milestone: rc
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Assignee: Adam Jackson
QA Contact: Desktop QE
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TreeView+ depends on / blocked
 
Reported: 2013-09-23 12:38 UTC by Tomas Pelka
Modified: 2015-11-19 04:18 UTC (History)
3 users (show)

Fixed In Version: xorg-x11-server-1.17.2-7.el7
Doc Type: Bug Fix
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Last Closed: 2015-11-19 04:18:59 UTC
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Red Hat Product Errata RHEA-2015:2198 0 normal SHIPPED_LIVE Xorg server and driver bug fix and enhancement update 2015-11-19 08:04:34 UTC

Description Tomas Pelka 2013-09-23 12:38:56 UTC 
Description of problem:
the cursor is not displayed on USB attached multiseat device Plugable UD-160-M.
Cursor came back on successful login. 

Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):
gdm-3.8.4-6.el7
gnome-shell-3.8.4-5.el7
xorg-x11-server-Xorg-1.14.2-10.el7

How reproducible:
100%

Steps to Reproduce:
1. boot rhel7 machine
2. attache Plugable UD-160-M
3.

Actual results:
no cursor on gdm

Expected results:
there should be a cursor

Additional info:
on the login screen it seems that cursor is just invisible, it doesn't meant it is messing

screen-saver works as expected, I mean cursor is displayed
Comment 2 Ray Strode [halfline] 2014-02-07 20:38:55 UTC 
So:

1) gnome-shell (well mutter) is calling XDefineCursor at startup. 
2) gnome-settings-daemon is calling XFixesHideCursor() at startup and XFixesShowCursor() when the user moves the mouse plugged into the device
3) The cursor doesn't show up though.
4) If something calls XDefineCursor a second time (say hover over the password entry, or restart gnome-shell) then the cursor suddenly appears

It looks like an X server bug of some sort.  Since it only happens with pluggable devices, i wonder if it's some sort of hotplug race?

Moving to X server.
Comment 3 Adam Jackson 2014-02-25 19:27:46 UTC 
Does this build fix it?

http://people.redhat.com/~ajackson/swcursor/
Comment 4 Adam Jackson 2014-03-05 15:01:15 UTC 
Well it had better, because that change is included in RHEL7 now.
Comment 14 errata-xmlrpc 2015-11-19 04:18:59 UTC 
Since the problem described in this bug report should be
resolved in a recent advisory, it has been closed with a
resolution of ERRATA.

For information on the advisory, and where to find the updated
files, follow the link below.

If the solution does not work for you, open a new bug report.

https://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHEA-2015-2198.html
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