I checked mutter. I happened to have: libmutter-1-0-3.26.2+20171231.0bd1d7cf0-1.1.x86_64.rpm mutter-3.26.2+20171231.0bd1d7cf0-1.1.x86_64.rpm mutter-data-3.26.2+20171231.0bd1d7cf0-1.1.x86_64.rpm mutter-lang-3.26.2+20171231.0bd1d7cf0-1.1.noarch.rpm on my NFS server. I have Tumbleweed set to keep packages. I delete them after a while, but I had not yet deleted those. So I installed them. It required me to uninstall bundle-lang-gnome-en I retested. The mouse is still not recognized by "gdm". So I guess it wasn't "mutter". I have since reinstalled the updated (20180127) mutter packages.