Touchscreens: The mouse cursor disappears when touching the screen

Bug #1331037 reported by Ara Pulido
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Invalid
Medium
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Trusty
New
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Unity
Invalid
Undecided
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unity (Ubuntu)
Invalid
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Trusty
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Bug Description

Single touch does cursor emulation, so I would expect that when I touch the touchscreen, the cursor jumps to the touch position.

Instead of doing that, the cursor disappears until I use the mouse again.

Touch events work correctly.

ProblemType: Bug
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 14.04
Package: unity 7.2.1+14.04.20140513-0ubuntu2
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 3.13.0-29.53-generic 3.13.11.2
Uname: Linux 3.13.0-29-generic x86_64
ApportVersion: 2.14.1-0ubuntu3.2
Architecture: amd64
CompizPlugins: No value set for `/apps/compiz-1/general/screen0/options/active_plugins'
CurrentDesktop: Unity
Date: Tue Jun 17 17:03:39 2014
EcryptfsInUse: Yes
InstallationDate: Installed on 2014-04-29 (48 days ago)
InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 14.04 LTS "Trusty Tahr" - Release amd64 (20140417)
SourcePackage: unity
UpgradeStatus: No upgrade log present (probably fresh install)

Revision history for this message
Ara Pulido (ara) wrote :
Ara Pulido (ara)
Changed in oem-priority:
importance: Undecided → Medium
Changed in unity (Ubuntu):
status: New → Confirmed
Changed in oem-priority:
status: New → Confirmed
Revision history for this message
Launchpad Janitor (janitor) wrote :

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

Changed in unity (Ubuntu Trusty):
status: New → Confirmed
Changed in unity:
status: New → Confirmed
Revision history for this message
Ara Pulido (ara) wrote :

Marking as Invalid, as this is the intended behaviour.

Changed in unity (Ubuntu Trusty):
status: Confirmed → Invalid
Changed in oem-priority:
status: Confirmed → Invalid
Changed in unity:
status: Confirmed → Invalid
Changed in unity (Ubuntu):
status: Confirmed → Invalid
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