Bug#942801: gnome-shell: Invisible mouse pointer

[Simon McVittie]

On Mon, 21 Oct 2019 at 20:04:57 +0200, Thomas Renard wrote:
> The mouse pointer gets invisible on desktop background and the shell
> elements after some desktop actions.

Could this be <https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/gnome-shell/issues/1165>,
possibly fixed by the patch in
<https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=111541>?

This might be a bug in libmutter or in the kernel, upstream seem to
be unsure; the regression seems to coincide with upgrading to Linux 5.2.
If you install the older 4.19.x kernel from Debian 10 'buster' and reboot
into that, does this problem disappear?

I can sometimes reproduce the mouse pointer disappearing when I go to the
Overview (move mouse to top left corner or press Windows key).

Workaround: do something that should change the mouse pointer, like
moving the mouse over the Search box in the Overview (this is difficult
when you can't see the pointer and have to guess its location from which
window is highlighted).

> It is quite difficult to explain when this effect occured. I assume it
> began when changing to a 5.x kernel still with gnome-shell 3.2. No
> changes with 3.4.

I would hope you are not using GNOME Shell 3.2 or 3.4. I assume you mean
3.32.x and 3.34.x?

    smcv