bug#37135: closed (GNOME+Wayland: mouse pointer disappears over gnome-shell elements)

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> GNOME+Wayland: mouse pointer disappears over gnome-shell elements
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> Wed, 21 Aug 2019 15:55:12 -0400
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> For the last few months, I've run into a new problem in gnome-shell that
> only happens when running under Wayland: the mouse pointer disappears
> sporadically, but only when the pointer is hovered over GUI elements
> owned by gnome-shell.  In particular, it happens when the pointer is
> over the gnome-shell top bar, or anywhere on the screen when in
> "overview" mode.
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> One trick I've found for getting the pointer back is to move the
> (invisible) pointer over the search box in overview mode.  Doing so
> causes the pointer image to change from an arrow to an text insertion
> graphic.
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> Unfortunately, this trick tends to fix it for only a short time.  The
> problem has become so annoying that I basically gave up on running GNOME
> within Wayland for now, and have gone back to Xorg.
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> This problem is not specific to Guix.  Here are some relevant bug
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>   https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/gnome-shell/issues/1165
>   https://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?id=246970
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>        Mark
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> This problem appears to be fixed with the recent GNOME updates, so I'm
> closing this bug.
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>       Mark
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