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KerrickStaley

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Registered: 2011-01-26

Posts: 32

[SOLVED] GNOME 3.14: cursor doesn't change, jerks

After upgrading to GNOME 3.14, my mouse cursor doesn't ever change appearance from the default "arrow" shape. For example, it doesn't change to a "pointing hand" when hovering over a link. Annoyingly, it also doesn't disappear when playing Team Fortress 2, although this could be unrelated.

Its movement is also jerky.

This issue doesn't occur in LXDE. The cursor movement is smooth in GDM, although I can't tell if the cursor-not-changing issue is present.

I tried:
Reinstalling adwaita-icon-theme (because https://bugs.archlinux.org/task/42408 seemed related)
-> This had no effect.

Switching the cursor theme to xcursor-neutral
-> This changed the appearance of the "arrow" cursor slightly, but all the issues remained.

Last edited by KerrickStaley (2014-12-30 02:04:31)

KerrickStaley

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Registered: 2011-01-26

Posts: 32

Re: [SOLVED] GNOME 3.14: cursor doesn't change, jerks

Finally tracked down the source of this

The issue was that the screen magnifier (accessibility tool) got turned on somehow. However, the magnification was apparently 1.0, so it wasn't noticeable (aside from the aforementioned problems).

I figured this out by moving ~/.config to ~/.config.bak and logging out/back in. This fixed the problem (but all my settings were gone). I then narrowed down which sub-directory of ~/.config was causing the problem; it turned out to be ~/.config/dconf. From there, I poked around in dconf-editor until I discovered the /org/gnome/desktop/a11y/applications/screen-magnifier-enabled key, which was set to true.