Mouse cursor disappears momentarily when moving over certain elements
Affects | Status | Importance | Assigned to | Milestone | |
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Raspbian |
New
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Undecided
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Unassigned |
Bug Description
It looks like whenever the mouse cursor moves across elements on the screen which have a different mouse cursor icon associated with them, the mouse cursor disappears. Also on some title elements, and especially when mouse hover tooltip elements in the menus are involved, the mouse cursor keeps disappearing. This happens quite often and causes noticeable flickering when moving the mouse, and in some HTML pages, it is difficult to precisely choose elements from small links, when the mouse cursor is hidden whenever moving the cursor only a few pixels.
Here are two videos showing the issue:
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This happens to me too. I notice it particularly when hovering over links, tabs, and "close tab" icons. Interestingly in the case of the latter, the cursor does not disappear until the "Close tab" tooltip appears. So perhaps there is some sort of conflict between them.
This issue has been discussed on the forum: see https:/ /www.raspberryp i.org/forums/ viewtopic. php?f=28& t=86135& p=778497 . A "fix" suggested in this discussion is to delete or rename /usr/share/ icons/Adwaita. This does work, but is obviously kludgy and results in not being able to tell when the program you've selected is starting up, because the mouse cursor with the little wheel is gone.
I find it especially problematic when trying to select in GIMP. It's very difficult to select just what you want when your cursor is disappearing on you.