On Thu, 17 Jul 2014 at 09:44:33 +0200, Joachim Breitner wrote: > since upgrading [g-s-d] from 3.8.5-2+b2 to 3.12.2-1, my mouse pointer was > invisible after login.
Looking at <https://bugs.debian.org/762512> it seems that the intention these days is: * gnome-settings-daemon is only intended to work with GNOME Shell (or at least Mutter); * non-Shell GNOME sessions should run gnome-flashback components instead of gnome-settings-daemon; * non-GNOME sessions should not run either In particular, the Compiz- and Metacity-based sessions provided by gnome-session-flashback already do this, so they should no longer be affected by this. gnome-flashback and/or g-s-d maintainers: is what I said above accurate? Gtk 3.14+ defaults to the Adwaita theme that is also the GNOME default, instead of the ugly Raleigh theme that was historically the Gtk default, which I think removes one historical reason why users of other desktops might have wanted to run gnome-settings-daemon. I see xmonad has dropped its built-in support for running a hybrid xmonad + GNOME session, so it is not directly relevant here. openbox-gnome-session's /usr/share/gnome-session/sessions/openbox-gnome.session and /usr/share/gnome-session/sessions/openbox-gnome-fallback.session still uses gnome-settings-daemon, so they probably still suffer from this bug? Similarly, cairo-dock-core appears to use gnome-settings-daemon in its cairo-dock + compiz + GNOME session. On Wed, 30 Jul 2014 at 10:52:08 +0200, Michał Politowski wrote: > Same problem under gnome-session-flashback. > Disabling the cursor plugin with dconf also helped here (after restart). This particular case should have been fixed in September (gnome-panel/3.8.1-4) according to <https://bugs.debian.org/762512>, because gnome-session-flashback no longer uses gnome-settings-daemon. Regards, S -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [email protected] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [email protected]
