Comment 6 for bug 818852

jeff crissman <email address hidden> writes:

> It is the mouse cursor that does not show, most of the time.
> If I move the mouse the cursor will be there once I login, but not
> visible until then.
>
Yes, I can confirm that -- the problem is strictly confined to lightdm
itself; once the X session has been started, everything works as usual
(X mouse cursor and all).

> The buttons are useless with this happening.
>
Indeed -- I thought this might be a seperate bug, but it indeed may be
connected. When I type a wrong username, I can't click "cancel" (well,
maybe I could, but without a cursor, its very hard to hit the button to
actually try). But worse, even using the keyboard, one can't cancel and
retry with another username -- I tried hitting "tab" to focus the cancel
button, and activate it using "return", but it didn't have any effect.
I'm not sure if "tab" actually changed the focus, but I could try again
(please tell me if you would wish for me to do so). Should this issue
(cancel not working) be filed as a separate issue, or do you think it
might be a side-effect of this bug, and prefer deal with in context of
this bug?

> The keyboard cursor works
>
Yes, entering text into the login box works, keyboard cursor and all,
except if you make a mistake at the username and hit enter, then you are
f*cked as described above -- AFAICS, once you are in this state (having
entered a non-existing username), the only way to rectify the situation
is restarting lightdm or rebooting.

Regards, Rotty
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Andreas Rottmann -- <http://rotty.yi.org/>