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Dead cursor on 125% scaling on x11

Bug #1877547 reported by Liam Demafelix on 2020-05-08

This bug report is a duplicate of: Bug #1873052: X11 fractional scaling causes two cursors after login (usually with amdgpu). Edit Remove

This bug affects 2 people

Affects		Status	Importance	Assigned to	Milestone
	gnome-shell (Ubuntu)	Confirmed	Undecided	Unassigned

Bug Description

Opening a bug for this since all other bugs that reported this have been closed.

On an X11 session, a dead secondary mouse is displayed when the scaling for a user session has been set to 125% (fractional scaling). Presumably, the dead cursor is a left-over from the login screen with 100% scaling.

I've attached a photo for reference. Screen capturing/print screen functionality does not capture the dead cursor.

Going back to 100% after logging in, then reverting to 125% removes the dead cursor.

ProblemType: Bug
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 20.04
Package: gnome-shell 3.36.1-5ubuntu1
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 5.4.0-29.33-generic 5.4.30
Uname: Linux 5.4.0-29-generic x86_64
ApportVersion: 2.20.11-0ubuntu27
Architecture: amd64
CasperMD5CheckResult: skip
CurrentDesktop: ubuntu:GNOME
Date: Fri May 8 17:44:03 2020
DisplayManager: gdm3
InstallationDate: Installed on 2020-05-08 (0 days ago)
InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 20.04 LTS "Focal Fossa" - Release amd64 (20200423)
RelatedPackageVersions: mutter-common 3.36.1-3ubuntu3
SourcePackage: gnome-shell
UpgradeStatus: No upgrade log present (probably fresh install)

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Liam Demafelix (liamdemafelix) wrote on 2020-05-08:

20200508_174734.jpg Edit (6.3 MiB, image/jpeg)
Dependencies.txt Edit (21.0 KiB, text/plain; charset="utf-8")
GsettingsChanges.txt Edit (1.0 KiB, text/plain; charset="utf-8")
ProcCpuinfoMinimal.txt Edit (1.4 KiB, text/plain; charset="utf-8")
ProcEnviron.txt Edit (115 bytes, text/plain; charset="utf-8")
ShellJournal.txt Edit (25.1 KiB, text/plain; charset="utf-8")
monitors.xml.txt Edit (554 bytes, text/plain; charset="utf-8")

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Launchpad Janitor (janitor) wrote on 2020-05-10:

Status changed to 'Confirmed' because the bug affects multiple users.

Changed in gnome-shell (Ubuntu):
status:	New → Confirmed

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Daniel van Vugt (vanvugt) wrote on 2020-05-11:

Thank you for taking the time to report this bug and helping to make Ubuntu better. This particular bug has already been reported and is a duplicate of bug 1873052, so it is being marked as such. Please look at the other bug report to see if there is any missing information that you can provide, or to see if there is a workaround for the bug. Additionally, any further discussion regarding the bug should occur in the other report. Feel free to continue to report any other bugs you may find.