Comment 11 for bug 818852

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jeff crissman (jccrissman) wrote : Re: [Bug 818852] Re: X cursor often not shown

I have GRUB_CMDLINE_LINUX_DEFAULT="quiet"
With lightdm 0.9.7 I have no cursor most of the time

On Mon, Oct 17, 2011 at 3:06 PM, Mark Kirkwood <email address hidden>wrote:

> I seem to have run into this with lightdm 1.0.1-0ubuntu6 (oneiric
> 64-bit). Doing some poking around I note that restarting lightdm from a
> terminal (i.e /etc/init.d/lightdm restart or similar) makes the cursor
> reappear properly again. Further experimentation seems to point to some
> interaction with the grub splash screen - removing splash from
> GRUB_CMDLINE_LINUX_DEFAULT in /etc/default/grub results in the cursor
> showing up in lightdm every time.
>
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> Title:
> X cursor often not shown
>
> Status in Light Display Manager:
> Triaged
> Status in “lightdm” package in Ubuntu:
> Triaged
> Status in “lightdm” package in Arch Linux:
> New
> Status in “lightdm” package in Debian:
> Confirmed
>
> Bug description:
> It seems that, since 0.9.2, cursor is often not shown in GTK+ greeter.
> This is a regression from 0.9.0, afaict, but it might be a GTK+ 3.0
> issue too.
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