Wacom cursor not shown in Wayland, works in Xorg

[Esokrates]

Hardware: Dell XPS 13 9310 2-in-1 with Dell Premium Active Pen (PN579X).

When using the Wayland session, I can't see a cursor moving when hovering with the pen. In the Xorg session a mouse cursor is shown that follows the pen as I hover over the display.

It would be nice to have the cursor for two reasons:

1. Being able to target more precisely
2. When doing presentations people can see when I highlight something with the cursor.

ProblemType: Bug
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 21.04
Package: gnome-shell 3.38.3-3ubuntu1
Uname: Linux 5.11.6-051106-generic x86_64
ApportVersion: 2.20.11-0ubuntu60
Architecture: amd64
CasperMD5CheckResult: unknown
CurrentDesktop: GNOME
Date: Tue Mar 16 11:34:15 2021
DisplayManager: gdm3
RelatedPackageVersions: mutter-common 3.38.3-3ubuntu2
SourcePackage: gnome-shell
UpgradeStatus: No upgrade log present (probably fresh install)

[Jouni Mettala (jouni-mettala)]

Could you attach output of following commands:

xinput list
sudo libinput list-devices

First one from xsession second from Wayland.

[Jouni Mettala (jouni-mettala)]

There is older bug against xf86-input-wacom.
https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/xf86-input-wacom/+bug/1852851

It leads to https://github.com/linuxwacom/xf86-input-wacom/issues/39
"pen that is reported as two devices, a stylus and an eraser. It is designed to switch to the eraser when the bottom barrel button is held."

Libinput.txt shows line:
Capabilities: tablet
Is that right or should it be pointer?

Affecting libinput because wayland uses it.

[Marco Trevisan (Treviño) (3v1n0)]

I think this was fixed upstream by
 https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/mutter/-/merge_requests/1779

Still, we'll get it back in next upload without input thread.

[Daniel van Vugt (vanvugt)]

Are you sure it's not https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/mutter/-/merge_requests/1758 ?

[Daniel van Vugt (vanvugt)]

... because the upstream bug is https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/mutter/-/issues/1645

[Launchpad Janitor (janitor)]

This bug was fixed in the package mutter - 3.38.4-1ubuntu1

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mutter (3.38.4-1ubuntu1) hirsute; urgency=medium

  * Merge with debian, containing new upstream release.
  * debian/tests: Adapt autopkgtest name and linked library to current soname
  * debian/tests/control: Update references to libmutter-7-dev
  * debian/patches: Remove Input Thread backport patches.
    It has been fun, but we decided to revert this, so here it is.
    (LP: #1918874, LP: #1919310)
  * debian/control: Set breaks on gnome-shell 3.38.4.
    That's the first version on which we'll remove the input thread patches
  * debian/libmutter-7-0.symbols: Revert symbol changes due to input thread
  * debian/patches: Add support for ABFR2101010 in v3d used by Raspberry Pi 4
    (LP: #1896171)
  * debian/patches: Handle NVIDIA's zero presentation times (LP: #1880086)
  * debian/patches: Properly handle configuration events on windows
    (LP: #191793)
  * Remaining changes with debian:
    - debian/gbp.conf: update upstream branch to point to ubuntu/master
    - debian/patches/x11-Add-support-for-fractional-scaling-using-Randr.patch:
      + X11: Add support for fractional scaling using Randr

mutter (3.38.4-1) unstable; urgency=medium

  * Team upload
  * New upstream release
    - Fix Wayland spec compliance when reordering subsurfaces.
      This is likely to be required by future Firefox versions in native
      Wayland mode.
    - Many other fixes that we already had via debian/patches
  * Drop most patches, included in the new upstream release

mutter (3.38.3-5) unstable; urgency=medium

  * Team upload

  [ Marco Trevisan (Treviño) ]
  * debian/patches: Include a missing commit from upstream gnome-3-38
    branch to fix X11 UI stutters

mutter (3.38.3-4) unstable; urgency=medium

  * Team upload

  [ Marco Trevisan (Treviño) ]
  * debian/patches: cherry-pick more upstream gnome-3-38 fixes
    - Correctly restore focus to applications that use globally active
      input handling, such as AWT/Swing Java apps
    - Disable double buffered shadow buffering, which was intended to
      improve performance with e.g. llvmpipe but currently makes it worse
  * debian/tests: Adapt autopkgtest name and linked library to current soname
  * debian/tests/control: Update references to libmutter-7-dev

  [ Simon McVittie ]
  * d/patches: Update to commit 3.38.3-26-g30c542ddc from gnome-3-38 branch
    - Fix X11 frame timing getting stuck if frames are skipped, resulting
      in X11 applications not always being redrawn when they should be
    - Fix a crash when clicking below titlebar with broken GTK themes

 -- Marco Trevisan (Treviño) <email address hidden> Fri, 26 Mar 2021 07:17:54 +0100