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ams1

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Registered: 2013-12-02

Posts: 26

[Solved] Invisible mouse pointer in Gnome 3.14

Since the Gnome 3.14 upgrade my mouse pointer turns invisible whenever I roll over the top bar, or the dash, or anywhere in the Activities view. It works fine in applications, etc., but I have to guess where the pointer is when using the shell.

I'm using the default, Adwaiter cursor theme, according to Tweak Tool.

This might be related to a pacman problem I had with the upgrade in which some package installs got corrupted (the gvfs upgrade made everything go read-only), but I think I've corrected that, and "pacman -Qkk" seems to think all is well. What specific packages could I check, to be sure?

Any other ideas how to fix this?

Thanks all.

Last edited by ams1 (2014-10-28 15:43:46)

ams1

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Registered: 2013-12-02

Posts: 26

Re: [Solved] Invisible mouse pointer in Gnome 3.14

It turns out the adwaita-icon-themes package was only partially installed. "pacman -Qk adwait-icon-themes" showed 37 missing files. I presume there must have been an interrupted or crashed install, somehow.