Bug 51647

Summary:	Cursor is invisible if no default is specified
Product:	Wayland	Reporter:	Sam Saxon <sax.vfx>
Component:	weston	Assignee:	Wayland bug list <wayland-bugs>
Status:	RESOLVED FIXED	QA Contact:
Severity:	minor
Priority:	medium	CC:	dottomi
Version:	unspecified
Hardware:	All
OS:	All
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i915 platform:		i915 features:

Description Sam Saxon 2012-07-02 02:19:15 UTC

It appears that a "default" cursor theme must be specified in order for a mouse cursor to show.

This theme file is found here: ~/.icons/default/index.theme

This file specifies a mouse cursor theme to be used by default. However, if this file doesn't exist, there is no fallback cursor -- so the cursor remains invisible.


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To replicate:
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Hopefully this will replicate the issue for everyone else:

1) Temporarilly remove/rename the following file:
   ~/.icons/default/index.theme

2) Run Weston in either direct rendering mode or as an X client.


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Result:
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The mouse cursor should be "invisible".


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Fix:
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Could we set a default cursor if no others are sepcified?

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Info:
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The following bug could in fact be the same issue as the one I've highlighted above:

https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=51016


For a bit more info, this post on the Arch forums solved the "invisible cursor" bug for me (all credit for the fix goes to user Giselher).

https://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?pid=1122238#p1122238

Comment 1 Philipp Brüschweiler 2012-08-16 10:05:44 UTC

*** Bug 51016 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***

Comment 2 Kristian Høgsberg 2012-10-29 17:45:29 UTC

The wayland-cursor library now has a built-in default cursor set.  This issues is fixed, closing.

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