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gedit hides mouse pointer when there is selected text

Bug #1376494 reported by Vitaly Korolev on 2014-10-01

This bug report is a duplicate of: Bug #1387219: Mouse pointer disappears and cursor stops blinking. Edit Remove

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This bug affects 18 people

Affects		Status	Importance	Assigned to	Milestone
	gedit (Ubuntu)	Confirmed	High	Unassigned

Bug Description

I'm not sure if this bug applies to other apps, but I could only make it happen in gedit.
To reproduce in 14.10beta2:
1. open gedit
2. type some text
3. select some text with keyboard (i.e. shift + arrow keys)
4. move the mouse pointer above gedit window

Result: the pointer is flickering or disappearing completely

ProblemType: Bug
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 14.10
Package: gedit 3.10.4-0ubuntu5
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 3.16.0-18.25-generic 3.16.3
Uname: Linux 3.16.0-18-generic x86_64
ApportVersion: 2.14.7-0ubuntu2
Architecture: amd64
CurrentDesktop: Unity
Date: Wed Oct 1 15:51:44 2014
InstallationDate: Installed on 2014-09-29 (2 days ago)
InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 14.10 "Utopic Unicorn" - Alpha amd64 (20140923)
ProcEnviron:
LANGUAGE=en_US
PATH=(custom, no user)
XDG_RUNTIME_DIR=<set>
LANG=en_US.UTF-8
SHELL=/bin/bash
SourcePackage: gedit
UpgradeStatus: No upgrade log present (probably fresh install)

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Vitaly Korolev (vitaly-korolev) wrote on 2014-10-01:

#1

Dependencies.txt Edit (10.2 KiB, text/plain; charset="utf-8")

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Kalle (rikte88) wrote on 2014-10-21:

#2

This bug affects me too. When text is selected and i cut it using ctrl+x the cursor starts flickering and the cpu fan ramps up (i guess due to some hide/unhide cursor loop). Only way to solve it is to restart gedit.

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Launchpad Janitor (janitor) wrote on 2014-10-21:

#3

Status changed to 'Confirmed' because the bug affects multiple users.

Changed in gedit (Ubuntu):
status:	New → Confirmed

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brulaz (bruce-lazerte) wrote on 2014-10-25:

#4

This bug is important.
It makes gedit unusable to me.
I've switched to another editor as a result

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brulaz (bruce-lazerte) wrote on 2014-10-25:

#5

Seems to be the same bugs as 1306500
with the same solution.

sudo apt-get install ibus-gtk
log out/in

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Vitaly Korolev (vitaly-korolev) wrote on 2014-10-25:

#6

This is no longer an issue for me in final release of 14.10.

Alberto Salvia Novella (es20490446e) on 2014-11-19

Changed in gedit (Ubuntu):
importance:	Undecided → High

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NickJ (nickd-jones) wrote on 2014-11-20:

#7

I have this bug too but it also affected the keyboard, when typing every few seconds some key presses would not register.

I installed ibus-gtk as recommended above and the problem has gone.

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Adam Matejko (adam-matejko) wrote on 2014-12-23:

#8

Installed ibus-gtk (ibus-gtk3 is already installed) and now everything is working properly.

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nothor (nothor84) wrote on 2015-01-05:

#9

I have installed "ibus-gtk"
sudo apt-get install ibus-gtk

But the problem is still there. For example, if you copy and paste something till you don't save or change the window focus, the mouse pointer flickers.

Ubuntu 14.10
3.16.0-28-generic x86_64

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nothor (nothor84) wrote on 2015-01-05:

#10

I update the last comment. You must to reboot the system.

To solve it:
sudo apt-get install ibus-gtk
sudo reboot

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Sebastien Bacher (seb128) wrote on 2015-01-05:

#11

Thank you for taking the time to report this bug and helping to make Ubuntu better. The issue you are reporting is an upstream one and it would be nice if somebody having it could send the bug to the developers of the software by following the instructions at https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Bugs/Upstream/GNOME. If you have done so, please tell us the number of the upstream bug (or the link), so we can add a bugwatch that will inform us about its status. Thanks in advance.

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Caleb (caleb89) wrote on 2015-03-23:

#12

Howdy,

The following solution worked for me on 14.10:

sudo apt-get install ibus-gtk

Cheers.

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