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[Andreas Rottmann <rotty@xxxxxxxxxx>]

jeff crissman <818852@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> writes:

> It is the mouse cursor that does not show, most of the time. 
> If I move the mouse the cursor will be there once I login, but not
> visible until then.
>
Yes, I can confirm that -- the problem is strictly confined to lightdm
itself; once the X session has been started, everything works as usual
(X mouse cursor and all).

> The buttons are useless with this happening. 
>
Indeed -- I thought this might be a seperate bug, but it indeed may be
connected.  When I type a wrong username, I can't click "cancel" (well,
maybe I could, but without a cursor, its very hard to hit the button to
actually try).  But worse, even using the keyboard, one can't cancel and
retry with another username -- I tried hitting "tab" to focus the cancel
button, and activate it using "return", but it didn't have any effect.
I'm not sure if "tab" actually changed the focus, but I could try again
(please tell me if you would wish for me to do so).  Should this issue
(cancel not working) be filed as a separate issue, or do you think it
might be a side-effect of this bug, and prefer deal with in context of
this bug?

> The keyboard cursor works
>
Yes, entering text into the login box works, keyboard cursor and all,
except if you make a mistake at the username and hit enter, then you are
f*cked as described above -- AFAICS, once you are in this state (having
entered a non-existing username), the only way to rectify the situation
is restarting lightdm or rebooting.

Regards, Rotty
-- 
Andreas Rottmann -- <http://rotty.yi.org/>

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https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/818852

Title:
  X cursor often not shown

Status in Light Display Manager:
  New
Status in “lightdm” package in Ubuntu:
  Triaged
Status in “lightdm” package in Arch Linux:
  New
Status in “lightdm” package in Debian:
  Confirmed

Bug description:
  It seems that, since 0.9.2, cursor is often not shown in GTK+ greeter.
  This is a regression from 0.9.0, afaict, but it might be a GTK+ 3.0
  issue too.

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