Center the mouse cursor at startup

Bug #1873625 reported by Hadrien
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This bug affects 3 people
Affects Status Importance Assigned to Milestone
Mutter
Fix Released
Unknown
mutter (Ubuntu)
Triaged
Wishlist
Unassigned

Bug Description

When I open a session, the mouse cursor moves at the bottom-right of the screen, at a fixed position. The coordinates are about (x:1730, y:970) on a 1920x1080 screen.

When I close the session, the mouse goes again to this position.

I am not sure if the issue really comes from mutter, or gdm, or other component.

This behavior is specially annoying because your first action after log-in will probably consist in launching an application by clicking its icon at opposite position of the screen, in the top-left part of the launch bar.

ProblemType: Bug
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 20.04
Package: mutter 3.36.1-3ubuntu3
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 5.4.0-24.28-generic 5.4.30
Uname: Linux 5.4.0-24-generic x86_64
ApportVersion: 2.20.11-0ubuntu27
Architecture: amd64
CasperMD5CheckResult: skip
CurrentDesktop: ubuntu:GNOME
Date: Sun Apr 19 09:03:01 2020
InstallationDate: Installed on 2018-04-07 (742 days ago)
InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 18.04 LTS "Bionic Beaver" - Alpha amd64 (20180403)
ProcEnviron:
 TERM=xterm-256color
 PATH=(custom, no user)
 XDG_RUNTIME_DIR=<set>
 LANG=fr_FR.UTF-8
 SHELL=/bin/bash
SourcePackage: mutter
UpgradeStatus: Upgraded to focal on 2020-04-04 (14 days ago)

Revision history for this message
Hadrien (psydk) wrote :
Revision history for this message
Daniel van Vugt (vanvugt) wrote :

This is a "feature" but efforts are underway upstream to change it:

  https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/mutter/-/issues/651

summary: - Mouse moves at the bottom right of the screen at log-in
+ Center the mouse cursor at startup
Changed in mutter (Ubuntu):
importance: Undecided → Wishlist
status: New → Triaged
Changed in mutter:
status: Unknown → Fix Released
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