[SOLVED partially] Re: mouse pointer "missing" on login screen

[ubuntu at howorth.org.uk]

ubu at labadie.us wrote:
> On Fri, May 06, 2022 at 03:15:02PM -0400, Jon LaBadie wrote:
> >
> > I installed the server edition of 22.04 and subsequently
> > added desktop environments.  The display manager is gdm.
> >
> > On the login and password entry screens I'm missing the
> > icon for the mouse pointer.  Instead I have a semi-opaque
> > white square.  Functional, but not very accurate.
> >
> > I don't know if I've missed a package or some config setting.
> >  
> 
> I read that gdm uses the "adwaita" icon&cursor themes by
> default.  So I looked into the adwaita packages available:
> 
> $ apt list 'adwaita-icon-theme*'
> Listing... Done
> adwaita-icon-theme/jammy,now 41.0-1ubuntu1 all [installed,automatic]
> adwaita-icon-theme-full/jammy,now 41.0-1ubuntu1 all [installed]
> $
> 
> The full version of adwaita, adwaita-icon-theme-full, was not
> installed, only the basic version, adwaita-icon-theme.
> 
> I installed the full version and the login screen mouse pointers 
> appeared.  Removed the package and I was back to the white square.
> Reinstall the full version and I got pointer icons again.

Kudos for solving the problem and for the thorough testing :)

> Sounds to me as if the full "adwaita-icon-theme" package should be
> a gdm dependency or the cursor icons from the full package should
> be added to the automatically installed basic package.

When you say 'the full "adwaita-icon-theme" package' you mean
'the adwaita-icon-theme-full package'? If so, I agree. I think the
resolution would be to raise a bug report. 

> I put "partially solved" in the subject as I still do not know how
> to determine/set/change the cursor theme used by gdm.

Sorry, I don't know either. Maybe somebody does?

> Thanks for listening,
> Jon
> 
> -- 
> Jon H. LaBadie                  ubu at labadie.us