This is not new with this version of Chromium. It's been an issue for several weeks. Moving the pointer around any web page or the Chromium UI does not change the pointer as expected, nor do mouseOver events trigger on any website. I reported this to the Chromium team initially, as it does not appear to be gentoo package related, but I'm reporting it here as well now that they've been unable to reproduce it. Chromium bug report here https://code.google.com/p/chromium/issues/detail?id=399809 Reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1. Launch Chromium 2. Move mouse around any web page 3. Observe that mouse pointer does not change as expected (change to "link" pointer over links, text entry cursor over text fields, etc). Additionally, mouseOver events are not triggered. Actual Results: Mouse pointer stays static; no mouseOver events occur Expected Results: Mouse pointer changes based upon content under the mouse - a hand/finger over links, a vertical bar over text input, and a straight pointer/arrow over areas with nothing to activate. https://code.google.com/p/chromium/issues/detail?id=399809 for the bug I filed with the Chromium team. I was initially using E18, but this issue occurs independent of window manager. nosferatu ~ # emerge -avp chromium [ebuild R #] www-client/chromium-38.0.2125.0 USE="cups (pic) pulseaudio tcmalloc -bindist -custom-cflags -gnome -gnome-keyring -kerberos (-neon) (-selinux) {-test}" LINGUAS="am ar bg bn ca cs da de el en_GB es es_LA et fa fi fil fr gu he hi hr hu id it ja kn ko lt lv ml mr ms nb nl pl pt_BR pt_PT ro ru sk sl sr sv sw ta te th tr uk vi zh_CN zh_TW" 0 KiB
Additional information: this issue affects 2 of the 3 binary packages available in gentoo. www-client/google-chrome-36.0.1985.143_p1 is not affected - mouseOver works, the mouse cursor changes over elements in the browser UI as expected. www-client/google-chrome-beta-37.0.2062.94_p1 is affected exactly the same as the original report. www-client/google-chrome-unstable-38.0.2125.8_p1 is affected exactly the same as the original report.
Yet further information: it is exactly this issue https://code.google.com/p/chromium/issues/detail?id=386015. I am running the Synergy server on my gentoo box, and a client on my Ubuntu laptop. I kill the synergys process and chromium now works completely as expected. The others experiencing this issue are on many different Linux distributions, so this is clearly not a gentoo issue. I think this ticket can be closed unless you want to keep it open for tracking purposes.
