Mar 04 13:41:07 kali gnome-shell[1468]: No cursor theme available, please install a cursor theme
Mar 04 13:41:07 kali gnome-shell[1468]: Received an X Window System error.
This probably reflects a bug in the program.

Bugs in software goes to the bugtracker of that software, not to the linux distribution shipping it.

-> https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/gnome-shell/-/issues

I am not sure how you were able to determine that the issue was with Gnome, when Gnome with Wayland works as intended and that this is only with Xorg.

Thats something the developers of that software needs to figure out (e.g. different code part used in Wayland vs. Xorg).

Overall not an issue / bug in Kali but just an issue / bug in a software shipped within Kali so most likely nothing the Kali team can help with.

No kali-bugreport, please refrain from commenting further on this report as you are unwilling to be helpful. This issue is specific to kali. After testing Trixie and installing experimental repos , I have no issues. I am not sure what you are rambling about, but its not helpful and I would kindly ask you to refrain from commenting further if you are not willing to assist. thank you for your understanding.

Note for the bug: After testing with trixie, I discovered that kalis gnome implementation is different from Trixie and instead is pulling from experimental, so I added experimental repo in etc/apt/sources.list. I was able to get full function However, Gnome version is 45.3, where Kali currently has 45.2. I was going to test it with Kali but found I had issues launching the DE when installing gnome-shell-extension-gsconnect from the experimental repo.

We are hitting this bug: https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=1063640.

This is due to adwaita-icon-theme version 46, and some versions of mutter that need to be updated in lockstep. Apparently it's fixed in Debian unstable with mutter 44.8-2 and in Debian experimental with mutter 45.3-3.

Kali is based on Debian testing, so we receive bugs (and fixes) with a bit of delay, compared to Debian unstable.

adwaita-icon-theme 46 entered Kali rolling on 27th of Feb: https://pkg.kali.org/pkg/adwaita-icon-theme. This is what caused the issue. As for mutter, we have 45.2-3 (indeed we pulled it from Debian experimental). So in short, we just need to update the gnome-shell+ mutter stack that we get from Debian experimental, and we should be good to go.

To clarify: the issue doesn't affect the 2024.1 release, as it was shipped with adwaita-icon-theme 45.0-2. Only kali-rolling is affected.

@Salty: So as you can see this is not a Bug in Kali, nothing more to say...

At this point mutter 45.3-3 should be in Kali rolling, so the issue should be fixed with the usual apt update && apt full-upgrade. Closing, but feel free to re-open if it's not fixed.

Thanks for the report!

@kali-bugreport this was absolutely a bug in kali. it was due to us having outdated dependencies that we pulled in that we didn't pull in, in lock step as we should have. salty's report was correct, and was requested by me that he open.