Soas F17 Beta - Cursor disappears when the frame reveals/hides or a palette reveals

[HoboPrimate]

To test:

Press F6
Frame opens/closes and cursor disappears

Move cursor over an icon
Palette reveals and cursor disappears

If the frame and palettes are now using gtk3, that possibly could be the problem. I have a sis graphic chip for which there is no hardware aceleration support in linux, but starting from Fedora 17, Gnome 3.4 enables for these situations some kind of software backed composition.

Attaching collected logs.

[HoboPrimate]

Can't get logs right now, but if you need them just tell.

[erikos]

Thanks for the report. I do not see this issue on an XO. Need to see what the situation is like in a F17 install on another machine.

[erikos]

The shell (frame, palettes in the shell) are not using GTK+ 3 yet, only the toolkit and some activities have been ported.

[erikos]

I do not see this on my Fedora beta live image, I need more info to reproduce.

[pbrobinson]

Replying to HoboPrimate:

To test:

Press F6
Frame opens/closes and cursor disappears

Move cursor over an icon
Palette reveals and cursor disappears

If the frame and palettes are now using gtk3, that possibly could be the problem. I have a sis graphic chip for which there is no hardware aceleration support in linux, but starting from Fedora 17, Gnome 3.4 enables for these situations some kind of software backed composition.

the software composition is only used in gnome-shell with mutter so doesn't affect sugar as it uses metacity for the underlying windows manager. The core sugar shell is also still using gtk2. There's currently 3 Activities in SoaSv7 that use gtk3 - Browse, Read, Abacus.

I also can't see the loss of the cursor when running in a KVM VM or as a real F-17 OS install. How are you running sugar?

[HoboPrimate]

I'm running with a live usb image of F17 soas (downloaded from  http://torrent.fedoraproject.org/).
This also happens with the regular F17 gnome live usb.

I'll try later today with another computer to see if it's a hardware problem.

[humitos]

I'm downloading this file

•  http://torrent.fedoraproject.org/torrents/Fedora-17-Beta-i686-Live-SoaS.torrent

I will try it later and I will comment the results on this ticket.

[pbrobinson]

Download the final release from

 http://spins.fedoraproject.org/soas/#downloads

[humitos]

Thanks! Downloading...

[humitos]

Replying to pbrobinson:

I also can't see the loss of the cursor when running in a KVM VM or as a real F-17 OS install. How are you running sugar?

I downloaded the image that you mentioned in comment:8:ticket:3478, ran it on a KVM QEMU VM and I could reproduce this issue: the cursor disappeared when I press F6 the twice and when I put the cursor over an icon. After moving the cursor, it appears.

This is the command that I'm using to run the VM:

$ qemu --version
QEMU emulator version 1.0,1 (Debian 1.0.1+dfsg-1), Copyright (c) 2003-2008 Fabrice Bellard

$ kvm --version
QEMU emulator version 1.0 (qemu-kvm-1.0+dfsg-11, Debian), Copyright (c) 2003-2008 Fabrice Bellard


$ kvm -m 1024 -usbdevice tablet -k es -cdrom /srv/descargas/Fedora-17-i686-Live-SoaS/Fedora-17-i686-Live-SoaS.iso

[erikos]

I don't think any issue inside Sugar, so I remove from the 0.96 milestone :)

[pbrobinson]

I don't see this issue on a Fedora 17 host with intel GPU so I'm not sure if it's a debian specific issue or config. I use virtmanager to creat/run the VM and use it's defaults