Bug#600927: gdm3: mouse cursor remains a 'clock'

[Emilio Pozuelo Monfort]

On 22/12/10 11:30, Josselin Mouette wrote:
> Le mardi 21 décembre 2010 à 19:58 +0100, Miklos Quartus a écrit :
>> I experience the same problem after a clean install of Debian Squeeze
>> from "squeeze-di-beta2" i386 CD. Cursor remains a 'clock' in the login
>> screen even after login-logout. I have no metacity. Otherwise no impact
>> on overall behaviour of the system.
>
> Does removing the “X-GNOME-Autostart-Notify=true” line
> in /usr/share/gdm/autostart/LoginWindow/metacity.desktop help?
>
> In all cases I don’t think it’s a good idea to have gdm3 without
> metacity. Maybe it should be made a dependency.

Not sure why, but at least with a mutter alternative I guess? I'm using 
gnome-shell now, though I still have metacity installed, so I'm not sure whether 
gdm would keep working if I removed it.

Cheers,
Emilio