Bug#942801: gnome-shell: Invisible mouse pointer

[Thomas Renard]

Am 21.10.19 um 21:01 schrieb 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?
> 

Found this upstream bug too.

I did it the other way round and installed the 5.3 kernel from unstable
(5.3.7-1). By now the problem does not occur (about an hour working with
this kernel).

So the solving of the problem might be: waiting for 5.3 in testing ;-)

Thomas