Ubuntu – Mouse pointer disappears in Ubuntu 16.04

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I've just installed Ubuntu desktop 16.04 (x64) on ASUS k501U. Sometimes (not always), my mouse pointer disappears after login. I tried some solutions like Ctrl+Alt+F1 and Ctrl+Alt+F7 but they did not fix the problem. After I restart, mouse usually appears again.

It's quite an annoying issue, is there a way to fix?

Best Answer

have the same problem after upgrading to 16.04. Often the mouse pointer will disappear. I found a way to get round this by restarting lightdm:

sudo service lightdm restart

but it's not a fix solution, since each time I have to type the command again.

So I changed lightdm to gdm:

sudo apt-get install gdm
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