The cursor disappears, when I use GNOME on Wayland

[Artyom Pozharov]

Sorry for low-quality video: https://photos.app.goo.gl/c6k8AHGJR6MifgHY8
P.S. Any screen recorders don't work on Wayland.

ProblemType: Bug
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 19.10
Package: gnome-shell 3.33.91-1ubuntu1
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 5.2.0-13.14-generic 5.2.8
Uname: Linux 5.2.0-13-generic x86_64
ApportVersion: 2.20.11-0ubuntu7
Architecture: amd64
CurrentDesktop: ubuntu:GNOME
Date: Tue Aug 27 22:36:59 2019
DisplayManager: gdm3
InstallationDate: Installed on 2019-08-25 (2 days ago)
InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 19.10 "Eoan Ermine" - Alpha amd64 (20190819)
ProcEnviron:
 LANGUAGE=ru_UA:ru
 PATH=(custom, no user)
 XDG_RUNTIME_DIR=<set>
 LANG=ru_UA.UTF-8
 SHELL=/bin/bash
RelatedPackageVersions: mutter-common 3.33.91-1ubuntu1
SourcePackage: gnome-shell
UpgradeStatus: No upgrade log present (probably fresh install)

[Iain Lane (laney)]

On Tue, Aug 27, 2019 at 07:47:53PM -0000, Artyom Pozharov wrote:
> Public bug reported:
>
> Sorry for low-quality video: https://photos.app.goo.gl/c6k8AHGJR6MifgHY8

Yes, thanks for filing. I showed this to the upstream guys and they knew
about it. It's apparently a kernel problem as if you revert to kernel
5.0 it goes away. So I'll reassign this bug to linux - maybe we can find
out when it was introduced if the kernel team can help us to bisect.

Cheers,

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[Artyom Pozharov (artyom-pozharov)]

Oh thank you, sir!

ср, 28 авг. 2019 г., 0:01 Iain Lane <email address hidden>:

> On Tue, Aug 27, 2019 at 07:47:53PM -0000, Artyom Pozharov wrote:
> > Public bug reported:
> >
> > Sorry for low-quality video: https://photos.app.goo.gl/c6k8AHGJR6MifgHY8
>
> Yes, thanks for filing. I showed this to the upstream guys and they knew
> about it. It's apparently a kernel problem as if you revert to kernel
> 5.0 it goes away. So I'll reassign this bug to linux - maybe we can find
> out when it was introduced if the kernel team can help us to bisect.
>
> Cheers,
>
> --
> Iain Lane [ <email address hidden> ]
> Debian Developer [ <email address hidden> ]
> Ubuntu Developer [ <email address hidden> ]
>
>
> ** Changed in: gnome-shell (Ubuntu)
> Status: New => Confirmed
>
> ** Package changed: gnome-shell (Ubuntu) => linux (Ubuntu)
>
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> report.
> https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1841661
>
> Title:
> The cursor disappears, when I use GNOME on Wayland
>
> Status in linux package in Ubuntu:
> Confirmed
>
> Bug description:
> Sorry for low-quality video: https://photos.app.goo.gl/c6k8AHGJR6MifgHY8
> P.S. Any screen recorders don't work on Wayland.
>
> ProblemType: Bug
> DistroRelease: Ubuntu 19.10
> Package: gnome-shell 3.33.91-1ubuntu1
> ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 5.2.0-13.14-generic 5.2.8
> Uname: Linux 5.2.0-13-generic x86_64
> ApportVersion: 2.20.11-0ubuntu7
> Architecture: amd64
> CurrentDesktop: ubuntu:GNOME
> Date: Tue Aug 27 22:36:59 2019
> DisplayManager: gdm3
> InstallationDate: Installed on 2019-08-25 (2 days ago)
> InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 19.10 "Eoan Ermine" - Alpha amd64 (20190819)
> ProcEnviron:
> LANGUAGE=ru_UA:ru
> PATH=(custom, no user)
> XDG_RUNTIME_DIR=<set>
> LANG=ru_UA.UTF-8
> SHELL=/bin/bash
> RelatedPackageVersions: mutter-common 3.33.91-1ubuntu1
> SourcePackage: gnome-shell
> UpgradeStatus: No upgrade log present (probably fresh install)
>
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[Daniel van Vugt (vanvugt)]

Thank you for taking the time to report this bug and helping to make Ubuntu better. This particular bug has already been reported and is a duplicate of bug 1767654, so it is being marked as such. Please look at the other bug report to see if there is any missing information that you can provide, or to see if there is a workaround for the bug. Additionally, any further discussion regarding the bug should occur in the other report. Feel free to continue to report any other bugs you may find.

[Iain Lane (laney)]

Actually, I'm not certain it is a duplicate of that one - this bug I think is a regression in eoan due to some change in the kernel between disco and eoan. Perhaps they are related though.

When I'm back from travelling I'll try to do a little bit of investigation (but I don't know anything about the DRM subsystem so bisecting is probably the best that I'm going to be able to achieve).

[Paul Mundt (pmundt)]

I've observed the same problem with Xorg, so I don't imagine it's a Wayland issue. Notably, my cursor is also invisible in GDM and lightdm. The mouse otherwise continues to function fine - I can move it around and click on things, I simply don't have any visible cursor.

I've also attempted to swap cursor themes to see if that made any difference, but no luck.