I was finally able to get startup notification work in xfce4 panel and also in the Thunar file manager by applying the attached patch and without setting GDK_CORE_DEVICE_EVENTS to true in /var/lib/lightdm/.pam_environment (I simply deleted this file). With the patch, unity-greeter displays correctly the mouse cursor and works as expected.
I used the informations from Message #5 from this page: https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=742460 and since I don't know the vala language, I used in the patch an external call to a C function. I don't know if this solution is ugly or not, but it seems to work well... ** Bug watch added: Debian Bug tracker #742460 http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=742460 ** Patch added: "startup-notification.patch.gz" https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/unity-greeter/+bug/1582669/+attachment/4672969/+files/startup-notification.patch.gz -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Desktop Packages, which is subscribed to unity-greeter in Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1582669 Title: Invisible mouse and cursor when GDK_CORE_DEVICE_EVENTS set to true Status in unity-greeter package in Ubuntu: New Bug description: When GDK_CORE_DEVICE_EVENTS is set to true in /var/lib/lightdm/.pam_environment (to allow startup notification in xfce4 panel) the mouse cursor and keyboard cursor become invisible in unity-greeter. Package version: unity-greeter 16.04.2-0ubuntu1 Ubuntu version: 16.04 100% reproducible To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/unity-greeter/+bug/1582669/+subscriptions -- Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~desktop-packages Post to : desktop-packages@lists.launchpad.net Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~desktop-packages More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp
