gedit-3.10.4: mouse pointer hides and flickers when Control key is pressed

[David Hedlund]

When I open gedit and press the control key, the cursor get invisible. It only shows when I move the mouse by flickering.

As you can imagine this is very annoying as the Control key is used as a shortcut key to copy, cut, paste, save, etc.

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[Sebastien Bacher (seb128)]

Thank you for your bug report, did you install any non standard component hiding the cursor? Do you get the issue in a guest session? What version of Ubuntu are you using? You seem the first one to report that issue but unsure what's different on your configuration...

[David Hedlund (g-public)]

"did you install any non standard component hiding the cursor?"

No

Do you get the issue in a guest session?

Yes

What version of Ubuntu are you using?

I'm actually using Trisquel 7 but I assume this is a Ubuntu bug.

[Sebastien Bacher (seb128)]

there is no report from Ubuntu users and that would be quite noticable, likely something your distribution is doing