I can confirm that still happens in Ubuntu 24.04 and executing
update-alternatives --set x-cursor-theme
/usr/share/icons/Adwaita/cursor.theme
fixes it,
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Title:
GNOME (non-Ubuntu) login screen mouse cursor is a semi-opaque white
square (missing adwaita-icon-theme-full)
Status in gdm3 package in Ubuntu:
Expired
Status in gnome-shell package in Ubuntu:
Expired
Bug description:
Do not think this is hardware dependent, but I'm using an HPE
MicroServer Gen10 Plus.
I installed the server edition of 22.04. Post-Installation, I added
some desktop environments. After logging in, these are working fine.
However on the gdm login entry and password entry screens I had no
mouse pointer icon. A semi-opaque white square tracked the mouse
movements. My reading suggested that gdm defaults to using the cursor
icon theme provided by the adwaita-icon-theme package. I discovered
this theme comes in two sizes, a basic, smaller package installed
automatically and a larger "full" package.
$ apt list 'adwaita-icon-theme*'
Listing... Done
adwaita-icon-theme/jammy,now 41.0-1ubuntu1 all [installed,automatic]
adwaita-icon-theme-full/jammy,now 41.0-1ubuntu1 all [installed]
$
The gdm mouse pointer appears and disappears with installation and
removal of the package "adwaita-icon-theme-full". Either gdm's
dependencies should include the "full" package OR the appropriate
mouse pointer icons should be moved from the full to the basic
"adwaita-icon-theme" package.
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