Re: Disappearing mouse pointer

[Antonio M]

same here, but I am using only Intel graphics. Pointer disappears only out
of application windows, and sometimes it comes backagain
Filed a bug against gnome but not sure of the component. Reported link says
unavailable
Antonio Montagnani

Linux Fedora 30 Workstation
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Il giorno gio 8 ago 2019 alle ore 06:21 Peter Hutterer <
peter.hutterer(a)who-t.net&gt; ha scritto:

>  On Wed, Aug 07, 2019 at 09:55:02AM -0600, Chris Murphy wrote:
>  > On Wed, Aug 7, 2019 at 9:03 AM Jerry James <loganjerry(a)gmail.com&gt; wrote:
>  > >
>  > > I use the default GNOME desktop, using Wayland with Intel graphics.  I
>  > > have a web browser, a terminal, and an editor running on desktop 1.
>  > > On desktop 2 (i.e., where Ctrl-Alt-Down takes you) I have virt-manager
>  > > running, with open windows for whichever VMs are currently in use.
>  > >
>  > > Yesterday, I updated my Fedora 30 machine.  See the list of updated
>  > > packages below.  After rebooting into the new kernel, I interacted
>  > > with a CentOS 7 VM for maybe 10 minutes.  When I moved the mouse
>  > > pointer out of the VM window on desktop 2, the pointer vanished.  That
>  > > is, the mouse pointer is now invisible on desktop 2, except when it is
>  > > inside the VM window.  If I switch back to desktop 1, the mouse
>  > > pointer is visible, unless I move it onto the menu bar at the top of
>  > > the screen, where it also vanishes.
>  > >
>  > > Logging out and then back in restored the mouse pointer, but after
>  > > working with the VM for just a few minutes, the mouse pointer
>  > > disappeared again, exactly as before.  Opening system settings brought
>  > > the mouse pointer back, for some reason.
>  >
>  > Weirdly I'm not seeing this on Fedora 30, I'm only seeing it on
>  > Rawhide, and I haven't figured out a pattern because it doesn't always
>  > happen.
>  >
>  > Also I'm only using Rawhide VM's in virt-manager, so I'm not certain
>  > the guest matters but that's speculative. Definitely it's related to
>  > virt-manager and intel graphics because I'm not using anything other
>  > than those two.
>  >
>  > My Fedora 30 laptop has
>  > 00:02.0 VGA compatible controller [0300]: Intel Corporation Skylake
>  > GT2 [HD Graphics 520] [8086:1916] (rev 07) (prog-if 00 [VGA
>  > controller])
>  >
>  > My Fedora 31 laptop (with this transient issue) has
>  > 00:02.0 VGA compatible controller [0300]: Intel Corporation 2nd
>  > Generation Core Processor Family Integrated Graphics Controller
>  > [8086:0126] (rev 09) (prog-if 00 [VGA controller])
>  >
>  > So it might be a controller specific bug, possibly kernel regression.
>  > But I'm not sure what components are responsible for the drawing of
>  > the pointer, and how it's negotiated when it transitions a
>  > virt-manager guest window, and all the ways that could cause confusion
>  > in a way to make the pointer vanish.
>
>  maybe https://gitlab.freedesktop.org/spice/spice-gtk/issues/83 or related
>  to
>  it.
>
>  Cheers,
>     Peter
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