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I have a problem when setting up a second monitor in Ubuntu on Wayland only when the monitor is set to left of the screen.

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this goes away when switching to X11.

pomsky
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    i have the same problem. but, second pointer in some cases goes away... and returns) – Psychozoic Oct 20 '17 at 16:18
  • in my case it shows when i am on the top left corner of my main monitor – Carlos Roque Oct 20 '17 at 16:26
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    Also seeing this only when in top left of my main monitor cursor is duplicated on bottom right (based on intended orientation of the monitor)/top right (based on actual orientation of monitor) of my secondary monitor. I'm not on Ubuntu, however -- I'm on Fedora with wayland. – Dogmatixed Jan 04 '18 at 17:52
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    It is a known bug: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/gnome-shell/+bug/1724977 – Frédéric Grosshans Mar 30 '18 at 08:23
  • @FrédéricGrosshans answer the question so I can mark your response as the correct answer – Carlos Roque Apr 05 '18 at 19:25

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You’re describing a known Wayland bug, which affects me too. It is rergistered on Launchpad as bug 17424977. As of today (April 6th, 2018), a fix has been released upstream. There are therefore three workarounds:

  • wait until the change propagates to Ubuntu and try to ignore this annoying second cursor on your left screen. Or better, since it’s free software: if you can, help Ubuntu implement the change
  • switch to a recent enough (i.e. brand new) branch of Wayland, which has the bugfix
  • switch to X11
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