Activity log for bug #1866454

Date Who What changed Old value New value Message
2020-03-07 12:01:06 Mircea Balog bug added bug
2020-03-07 19:01:51 Mircea Balog description Issue Description ----------------- Intel NUC5CPYH has two video outputs: - VGA - HDMI When booting with two monitors after lightdm on screen appear two mouse pointers - one on center of the "viewport" between two mointor - this one can be handled on the screen - one on the lateral edge of one of the monitor. - this imitate the behaviour of first without moving Note: on xinput there is only one master pointer, so it should not be two on screen. Workaround ---------- To solve this issue an workaround is to boot PC with only one monitor, and connect the second one only after logged-in and OS has finished loading Ubuntu Mate 19.10 Issue aggravation ----------------------------------- On 19.10 - with compositing window manager - boot with two monitors to have two pointers - use Marco - Adaptive compositor The mouse start to flicker on screen alternateing between positions, leaving trails and screen artifacts make system unusable Workaraound - use Marco - No Compositor Note ---- This system also has another mouse pointer bug https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu-mate/+bug/1866452 Issue Description ----------------- - two mouse pointers on screen on booting with on dual monitor setup, One behave normally second is stuck just animate synchronously with first one. - The presence of second mouse pointer results in mouse pointer trailing artifacts and screen artifacts under mouse pointer, rendering desktop unusable. - On Ubuntu Mate the second mouse pointer appear on a screen edge, and on Regular Ubuntu it appear somewhere on one of the two screens. Affected Systems ---------------- - Tested on Both Ubuntu Mate and regular Ubuntu, both version 19.10 and 20.04 Issue reproduction ------------------ - booting with two monitors connected on affected system, (connecting second monitor after login screen -lightdm greeter ... - will prevent issue appear) Workarounds ----------- - booting with only one monitor connected, and connect the second one later after log-in screen appear. - on booting with two monitors on Ubuntu Mate: Disabling Marco - Adaptive compositor to "No Compositor" will solve pointer trailing and screen artifacts, (but the second mouse pointer remain outside screen. Note ---- This system also has another mouse pointer bug https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu-mate/+bug/1866452
2020-03-07 19:02:10 Mircea Balog bug task added ubuntu
2020-03-08 00:30:21 Mircea Balog affects ubuntu xserver-xorg-video-intel
2020-03-08 00:30:39 Mircea Balog bug task added ubuntu
2020-03-08 00:45:17 Mircea Balog bug task added xserver-xorg-video-intel (Ubuntu)
2020-03-22 12:32:42 Norbert tags monitor mouse pointer eoan focal
2020-08-02 11:03:41 Norbert tags eoan focal focal
2022-04-09 00:06:38 Martin Wimpress  bug task deleted ubuntu-mate