I seem to have run into this with lightdm 1.0.1-0ubuntu6 (oneiric 64-bit). Doing some poking around I note that restarting lightdm from a terminal (i.e /etc/init.d/lightdm restart or similar) makes the cursor reappear properly again. Further experimentation seems to point to some interaction with the grub splash screen - removing splash from GRUB_CMDLINE_LINUX_DEFAULT in /etc/default/grub results in the cursor showing up in lightdm every time.
-- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Desktop Packages, which is subscribed to lightdm in Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/818852 Title: X cursor often not shown Status in Light Display Manager: Triaged Status in “lightdm” package in Ubuntu: Triaged Status in “lightdm” package in Arch Linux: New Status in “lightdm” package in Debian: Confirmed Bug description: It seems that, since 0.9.2, cursor is often not shown in GTK+ greeter. This is a regression from 0.9.0, afaict, but it might be a GTK+ 3.0 issue too. To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/lightdm/+bug/818852/+subscriptions -- Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~desktop-packages Post to : desktop-packages@lists.launchpad.net Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~desktop-packages More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp