On Wed, Aug 07, 2019 at 09:55:02AM -0600, Chris Murphy wrote: > On Wed, Aug 7, 2019 at 9:03 AM Jerry James <loganjerry@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > > > I use the default GNOME desktop, using Wayland with Intel graphics. I > > have a web browser, a terminal, and an editor running on desktop 1. > > On desktop 2 (i.e., where Ctrl-Alt-Down takes you) I have virt-manager > > running, with open windows for whichever VMs are currently in use. > > > > Yesterday, I updated my Fedora 30 machine. See the list of updated > > packages below. After rebooting into the new kernel, I interacted > > with a CentOS 7 VM for maybe 10 minutes. When I moved the mouse > > pointer out of the VM window on desktop 2, the pointer vanished. That > > is, the mouse pointer is now invisible on desktop 2, except when it is > > inside the VM window. If I switch back to desktop 1, the mouse > > pointer is visible, unless I move it onto the menu bar at the top of > > the screen, where it also vanishes. > > > > Logging out and then back in restored the mouse pointer, but after > > working with the VM for just a few minutes, the mouse pointer > > disappeared again, exactly as before. Opening system settings brought > > the mouse pointer back, for some reason. > > Weirdly I'm not seeing this on Fedora 30, I'm only seeing it on > Rawhide, and I haven't figured out a pattern because it doesn't always > happen. > > Also I'm only using Rawhide VM's in virt-manager, so I'm not certain > the guest matters but that's speculative. Definitely it's related to > virt-manager and intel graphics because I'm not using anything other > than those two. > > My Fedora 30 laptop has > 00:02.0 VGA compatible controller [0300]: Intel Corporation Skylake > GT2 [HD Graphics 520] [8086:1916] (rev 07) (prog-if 00 [VGA > controller]) > > My Fedora 31 laptop (with this transient issue) has > 00:02.0 VGA compatible controller [0300]: Intel Corporation 2nd > Generation Core Processor Family Integrated Graphics Controller > [8086:0126] (rev 09) (prog-if 00 [VGA controller]) > > So it might be a controller specific bug, possibly kernel regression. > But I'm not sure what components are responsible for the drawing of > the pointer, and how it's negotiated when it transitions a > virt-manager guest window, and all the ways that could cause confusion > in a way to make the pointer vanish. maybe https://gitlab.freedesktop.org/spice/spice-gtk/issues/83 or related to it. Cheers, Peter _______________________________________________ devel mailing list -- devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe send an email to devel-leave@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx Fedora Code of Conduct: https://docs.fedoraproject.org/en-US/project/code-of-conduct/ List Guidelines: https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines List Archives: https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
