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Description of problem: In some GTK programs the cursor sometimes disappears in the text fields. I have no exact reproducer, but it happens so frequent enough that I was able to create a screencast. Most of the time I see this bug in Gnote, but I also saw it in the address bar in Google Chrome. My colleague saw the same problem in Empathy in Fedora 15. See attached screencasts. Sometimes I have cursor in Gnote, sometimes I have not. Occasionally clicking the window title bar helps, but I couldn't reproduce that in the screencast. If the cursor disappears, it might take a long time until it appears again. Switching and using other applications in the meantime seems to help a bit. Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): gtk3-3.2.1-1.fc16.x86_64 How reproducible: often, but no exact way to reproduce it
Created attachment 538555 [details] first screencast
Created attachment 538560 [details] second screencast
I've encountered this bug myself, but only in GNote (F17 gnome3), and only in the first "root" note that I renamed "TODO". Randomly reproducible. Killing & restarting gnote restores the cursor. gtk3-3.4.3-2.fc17.x86_64 gnote-0.8.2-2.fc17.x86_64
Oh, you are right. I also see it only with my top note called TODO. Other notes seem unaffected. But I created a new note, copied the contents of TODO there and cursor seems be broken anyway :/ Could the "brokeness" have been copied with the contents as well (maybe some invalid formatting or something)? Since I reported this bug, I haven't seen this bug manifest in other application than gnote. It seems like a Gnote problem then, reassigning. gnote-0.8.2-1.fc16.x86_64
In Fedora 18 I see it mainly with my top note "TODO", but I see it also with other notes _very often_. gnote-3.6.2-1.fc18.x86_64
Rahul, could you please add an information in which version this was fixed? Also, how come that the upstream bug doesn't show any activity? Thanks.
This isn't the bug I meant to close. Reopening
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