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kurotetsuka

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Registered: 2014-11-20

Posts: 7

[Solved] Gnome 3 mouse hiding when over shell

Hey there,

There seems to be a problem with the latest version of mutter (from last night). The mouse just disappears when over anything that's part of the shell (the top bar, overview mode, any extension chrome, etc). Downgrading mutter from 3.18.3-1 to 3.18.2-1 solved the problem for me.

Hope this helps someone .

Last edited by kurotetsuka (2016-03-06 18:24:12)

anoble

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Registered: 2015-11-23

Posts: 10

Re: [Solved] Gnome 3 mouse hiding when over shell

Thanks for this post.

I'm seeing the same thing on my Dell XPS 13 2015 edition. The mouse always disappears over the Gnome Shell elements and sometimes it disappears altogether after I've left the computer for a while and come back to it.

I haven't tried downgrading yet, but I'm going to give it a shot.

I just downgraded mutter and it's working fine again.

Last edited by anoble (2016-03-07 13:14:55)

daltones

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Registered: 2015-12-15

Posts: 1

Re: [Solved] Gnome 3 mouse hiding when over shell

Thanks! Same problem here, same fix by downgrading mutter.

But…… I think the problem is not just with mutter-3.18.3. That's because I was using it since friday, but with Linux Mainline 4.5-rc6. And cursors were just fine.

Today, with mutter-3.18.3 + linux-mainline-4.5-rc7, the problem just appeared.

cmtonkinson

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Registered: 2013-11-15

Posts: 18

Re: [Solved] Gnome 3 mouse hiding when over shell

Same issue with mutter-3.18.3 and linux-4.4.3 (mainline). Downgrading to mutter-3.18.2 and restarting Gnome Shell worked.

synt4x

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Registered: 2010-11-30

Posts: 9

Re: [Solved] Gnome 3 mouse hiding when over shell

I also initially had this issue, but then it started working again. I'm not really sure what I did though...
I was screwing around in the settings and turned off my second monitor since I don't really use it that often, thinking that it might have something to do with that for whatever reason. But the mouse still disappeared after this. But after I managed to open Firefox (as a maximized window) everything started working again. I've logged out and logged back in again and it seems to work as it should now.

eomanis

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Registered: 2013-04-17

Posts: 54

Re: [Solved] Gnome 3 mouse hiding when over shell

Hey there,

There seems to be a problem with the latest version of mutter (from last night). The mouse just disappears when over anything that's part of the shell (the top bar, overview mode, any extension chrome, etc). Downgrading mutter from 3.18.3-1 to 3.18.2-1 solved the problem for me.

Hope this helps someone .

Thank you for this post, it did help me very much. Very annoying having no cursor in shell overview mode.

I wouldn't call downgrading being worth a [Solved], though :-)
Hopefully the next version (or GNOME shell 3.20) fixes this.

mickours

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Registered: 2013-01-11

Posts: 6

Re: [Solved] Gnome 3 mouse hiding when over shell

I posted a bug regarding the Mutter package:
https://bugs.archlinux.org/task/48505

twofive0

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Registered: 2014-06-18

Posts: 3

Re: [Solved] Gnome 3 mouse hiding when over shell

This has been posted upstream as well: https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=763159

One user reported an NVidia driver, but happens with my Intel graphics as well.

Running in Wayland session, the mouse appears - Only disappears in X.  Unfortunately for me, Wayland is way to buggy for use on this particular Dell laptop.

Last edited by twofive0 (2016-03-08 15:09:12)

marcvangend

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Registered: 2013-04-22

Posts: 21

Re: [Solved] Gnome 3 mouse hiding when over shell

Thanks, downgrading to Mutter 3.18.2-1 worked for me.

kurotetsuka

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Registered: 2014-11-20

Posts: 7

Re: [Solved] Gnome 3 mouse hiding when over shell

I'm glad to hear this is helping people . Also wanted to add that I too am running linux-4.4.3-1.

The linux upgrade (4.4.1-2 -> 4.4.3-1) hit my machine on 2016-03-04, and the mutter upgrade (3.18.2-1 -> 3.18.3-1) on 2016-03-06. Perhaps its a conflict? Anyways someone might wanna let the gnome buzilla people know (I don't have an account).

Edit: Is there a tag better than the [Solved] tag that I should be using?

Last edited by kurotetsuka (2016-03-08 20:34:52)

WhiteKnight

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Registered: 2011-11-19

Posts: 15

Re: [Solved] Gnome 3 mouse hiding when over shell

Is there a tag better than the [Solved] tag that I should be using?

Don't use a tag until this issue is really solved with a new package version of (probably) mutter.

kurotetsuka

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Registered: 2014-11-20

Posts: 7

Re: [Solved] Gnome 3 mouse hiding when over shell

Makes sense, I guess. I'm pretty sure i can't change it now, though.

marcvangend

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Registered: 2013-04-22

Posts: 21

Re: [Solved] Gnome 3 mouse hiding when over shell

I just updated to mutter-3.18.3-2 and the problem is solved now.

Looking at https://projects.archlinux.org/svntogit … 74f6a9be3a it seems that it's not really fixed upstream, but the package release is patched.

Last edited by marcvangend (2016-03-15 11:03:39)