The position of the Gedit cursor is not visible

Bug #1876883 reported by Stefano Dall'Agata
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gedit (Ubuntu)
Expired
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Bug Description

When I open Gedit the blinking cursor is not visible, it does not appear even when writing and therefore it becomes difficult to correct misspelled words.

Ubuntu 20.04
uname -a
Linux stefano-Lenovo-G50-30 5.4.0-28-generic #32-Ubuntu SMP Wed Apr 22 17:40:10 UTC 2020 x86_64 x86_64 x86_64 GNU/Linux

Gedit 3.36.1
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ProblemType: Bug
ApportVersion: 2.20.11-0ubuntu27
Architecture: amd64
CasperMD5CheckResult: skip
CurrentDesktop: Unity:Unity7:ubuntu
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 20.04
InstallationDate: Installed on 2020-04-25 (10 days ago)
InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 20.04 LTS "Focal Fossa" - Release amd64 (20200423)
Package: gedit 3.36.1-1
PackageArchitecture: amd64
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 5.4.0-28.32-generic 5.4.30
Tags: focal
Uname: Linux 5.4.0-28-generic x86_64
UpgradeStatus: No upgrade log present (probably fresh install)
UserGroups: adm cdrom dip lpadmin lxd plugdev sambashare sudo
_MarkForUpload: True

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Sebastien Bacher (seb128) wrote :

Thank you for taking the time to report this bug and helping to make Ubuntu better. Please execute the following command, as it will automatically gather debugging information, in a terminal:

  apport-collect 1876883

When reporting bugs in the future please use apport by using 'ubuntu-bug' and the name of the package affected. You can learn more about this functionality at https://wiki.ubuntu.com/ReportingBugs.

Changed in gedit (Ubuntu):
importance: Undecided → Low
status: New → Incomplete
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Sebastien Bacher (seb128) wrote :

Could you also take a screenshot showing the issue?

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Stefano Dall'Agata (essedia1960) wrote : Dependencies.txt

apport information

tags: added: apport-collected focal
description: updated
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Stefano Dall'Agata (essedia1960) wrote : ProcCpuinfoMinimal.txt

apport information

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Stefano Dall'Agata (essedia1960) wrote : ProcEnviron.txt

apport information

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Stefano Dall'Agata (essedia1960) wrote :

I wrote the word "test" twice, and then I clicked twice with the left arrow, positioning the writing point after the "o".
The cursor has never been visible.

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Stefano Dall'Agata (essedia1960) wrote :

The word "prova", sorry.

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Sebastien Bacher (seb128) wrote :

What theme are you using? It seems rather an issue with the color in use, the problem doesn't exist with the default scheme

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Stefano Dall'Agata (essedia1960) wrote :

With "Kate". Ok, in other is visible.

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Stefano Dall'Agata (essedia1960) wrote :

Changing the theme in appearance it looks like the cursor now see also on Kate

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Launchpad Janitor (janitor) wrote :

[Expired for gedit (Ubuntu) because there has been no activity for 60 days.]

Changed in gedit (Ubuntu):
status: Incomplete → Expired
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NounouRs (sandburg) wrote (last edit ):

Up.
GEdit 3.38.1
Looks like some Gnome theme are incompatible with the cursor visibility.
Theme "Adwaita-dark"

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