Ubuntu – Mouse cursor invisible after 15.04 update

15.04cursormouse

My mouse pointer became invisible after some updates after I upgraded to 15.04 from 14.10.
In all standard settings the mouse pointer is activated (system settings, dconf…)
I also tried different cursor icons with no success.

The pointer is sometimes visible after I shut down and reboot the system. But only sometimes and I couldn't figure out a patterns why it sometimes shows up.

I found the following solution which did not work

gsettings set org.gnome.settings-daemon.plugins.cursor active false

Any help appreciated! thanks!

Best Answer

This bug is still around for a Xubuntu 16.04 system using lightdm. A fix for Xubuntu, and possibly other DE's, as described on the Xubuntu 16.04 Release Post is to bring the cursor back with Ctrl+Alt+F1 followed by Ctrl+Alt+F7 .

This worked for me, where none of the other solutions had without reloading everything and closing every page.

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I'm on 15.10, but at least this seems to be an approach that you have not yet tried.

GSettings is a GLib implementation of DConf, which stores its data in a binary database.

...says @dobey in this answer

Try this:

gsettings set org.gnome.desktop.interface cursor-size 48

It should be persisted after reboot. At least it worked for me with other settings.

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I've finally figured it out. The problem was that my mouse was connected via PS/2 port and my tablet was connected via USB. I've connected my mouse via USB and cursor disappeared permanently. But after system restart everything works perfectly fine. I can control my pointer using both mouse and tablet and nothing disappears anymore. Looks like Xorg can't handle input from PS/2 and USB at the same time.

But Ubuntu 15.10 had no problem with it. Machine with 15.10 on which I've done testing before is a laptop with touchpad connected internally via PS/2 and I was using exactly the same USB tablet. There were no problems on that machine.

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