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regarding gnome-settings-daemon: jerky mouse cursor movement since GNOME 3.8
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Package: gnome-settings-daemon
Version: 3.8.5-2
Severity: normal
Yesterday GNOME 3.8 landed in Jessie, and the upgrade has been pretty painless
so far (much thanks and congratulations!) but there's one minor thing that's
bugging me: my mouse-cursor movement is a lot jerkier than I'm used to.
Here's a video I recorded using the new screen-recording feature (~800KB, it
plays quite nicely in Iceweasel):
https://mediacru.sh/_QdUPxna8n5r
Note that as I drag the Nautilus window about, the window movement is silky-
smooth, while the cursor lags quite noticeably.
This behaviour has survived across several logins and reboots. I have tried
disabling all my gnome-shell extensions. The cursor works beautifully as I
expect it to on the GNOME 3.8 login screen, "GNOME Flashback" (whether the
Metacity compositing mode is enabled or not) and Enlightenment 17; the cursor
moves sluggishly as described under the "GNOME" and "GNOME Classic" sessions.
I filed this bug against gnome-settings-daemon because I discovered
https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=694758 which implies that gnome-
settings-daemon now does some magic cursor manipulation. However, I disabled
org.gnome.settings-daemon.plugins.cursor.active, logged out and logged back in,
and the laggy cursor still persists.
I'm not sure how relevant this information is, but I started with the linux
3.10 package in Testing, and have just now tried updating to the 3.11 package
from Unstable (no change). I'm using a Kensington Expert Mouse (despite the
name, it's a USB trackball), and the xserver-xorg-video-intel driver (again,
the latest in unstable). This is a desktop PC, so there's no trackpad or touch-
screen involved.
Is there any more information I could provide that would be helpful? Is there a
more appropriate place I should be asking for help?
Thanks in advance for your attention.
-- System Information:
Debian Release: jessie/sid
APT prefers testing
APT policy: (990, 'testing'), (500, 'unstable'), (1, 'experimental')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)
Foreign Architectures: i386
Kernel: Linux 3.11-2-amd64 (SMP w/4 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=en_AU.utf8, LC_CTYPE=en_AU.utf8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash
Versions of packages gnome-settings-daemon depends on:
ii dconf-gsettings-backend [gsettings-backend] 0.18.0-1
ii gsettings-desktop-schemas 3.8.2-2
ii libc6 2.17-93
ii libcairo2 1.12.16-2
ii libcanberra-gtk3-0 0.30-2
ii libcanberra0 0.30-2
ii libcolord1 1.0.2-1
ii libcups2 1.6.3-1
ii libfontconfig1 2.11.0-1
ii libgdk-pixbuf2.0-0 2.28.2-1
ii libglib2.0-0 2.36.4-1
ii libgnome-desktop-3-7 3.8.4-2
ii libgtk-3-0 3.8.4-1
ii libgudev-1.0-0 204-5
ii libibus-1.0-5 1.5.3-7
ii liblcms2-2 2.2+git20110628-2.3
ii libnotify4 0.7.6-1
ii libpackagekit-glib2-16 0.8.12-1
ii libpango-1.0-0 1.36.0-1
ii libpulse-mainloop-glib0 4.0-6+b1
ii libpulse0 4.0-6+b1
ii librsvg2-2 2.40.0-1
ii libupower-glib1 0.9.23-2
ii libwacom2 0.8-1
ii libx11-6 2:1.6.2-1
ii libxfixes3 1:5.0.1-1
ii libxi6 2:1.7.2-1
ii libxkbfile1 1:1.0.8-1
ii libxtst6 2:1.2.2-1
ii nautilus-data 3.8.2-2
ii systemd 204-5
Versions of packages gnome-settings-daemon recommends:
ii pulseaudio 4.0-6+b1
Versions of packages gnome-settings-daemon suggests:
ii e17 [x-window-manager] 0.17.3-2
ii gnome-screensaver 3.6.1-1
ii metacity [x-window-manager] 1:2.34.13-1
ii wmaker [x-window-manager] 0.95.5-1
ii x11-xserver-utils 7.7+1
-- no debconf information
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--- Begin Message ---
There have been many changes to Debian since this bug was originally
reported. If you are still experiencing this issue with Debian 13 (or
with Debian 12 or Testing or Unstable), please report a new bug.
Thank you,
Jeremy Bícha
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