Bug#775877: gnome-session: No mouse pointer after login

[Tim]

The cursor gets hidden when the Idle Monitors are not available (these were moved into mutter around 3.10), so you won't have them in your
flashback session. This is probably an upstream bug, it doesnt look like the cursor should really get hidden in this case, however the idle
monitors will always exist under GNOME3, so the error path is likely gone undetected.

On Ubuntu flashback is using unity-settings-daemon in recent releases since it provided better compatibility with the legacy desktops.

The cursor plugin just hides the cursor on touchscreen devices, it should be fine to disable on normal desktops/laptops. However I would be
surprised if there are not other more serious bugs that exist when using flashback with g-s-d, broken display config? non-existant screensaver
timeouts? unless these have been fixed upstream in recent times?

On 11/03/15 10:05, Cam Hutchison wrote:
> I've had this problem for about a year (from memory) on both Debian
> and Ubuntu. My situation may be uncommon though - I run
> gnome-fallback/flashback or whatever it is called now so I can run a
> gnome desktop with fvwm.
>
> I discovered my problem to be related to the gnome settings daemon
> cursor plugin. Turning it off made my cursor come back:
>
> $ gsettings set org.gnome.settings-daemon.plugins.cursor active false
>
> I can reproduce this (currently under Ubuntu, but I'll give it another
> try when I get to my Debian desktop tonight) by setting that key to
> true:
>
> $ gsettings set org.gnome.settings-daemon.plugins.cursor active true
>
> I have no idea what this plugin is meant to do and I see no
> detrimental affects from turning it off.
>
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