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Re: No mouse cursor in new install of LL3.8
« Reply #6 on: July 22, 2018, 09:34:21 PM »
 

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You are Welcome jimc  :)
 

Re: No mouse cursor in new install of LL3.8
« Reply #5 on: July 22, 2018, 02:51:45 PM »
 

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Did the two mouse thing and that worked, even enabled my Bluetooth mouse.
For the time being, I am fixed thanks for your help.
 

Re: No mouse cursor in new install of LL3.8
« Reply #4 on: July 21, 2018, 06:56:23 AM »
 

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The only other info I managed to find was these instructions.
https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/286419/mouse-goes-out-screen-too-far-on-the-right-side-ubuntu-kde
As solution for this https://askubuntu.com/questions/824339/mouse-pointer-disappears-in-ubuntu-16-04
Which this second link also contains a temporary solution the person used previously, to restart the lightdm and as it needed to be done often, the user shows how they changed lightdm to gdm instead, and this solved it for them.

Edit - Just for experimental reasons, do you have 2 usb mouse you can plug in to use one after another, so both are connected at same time ?
Does the second mouse cursor display ?
I made some edits to stop my mouse working, which made it also so it didn't work after reboots, and was not recognized if removed and reconnected, when adding an alternative mouse it also didn't work.
But when leaving first mouse connected and also connecting a second mouse, second mouse work and I changed back the settings of first mouse so it worked.
If it will work for you it may help in looking at settings easier than using the invisible cursor when trying solutions.
Example when both are connected go to Menu>Settings>Mouse and Touchpad then tick enable this device for each mouse in drop down menu, then remove 1 of the mouse, because it seems from the my experiment some fixes require specific sequences for fixing the mouse problems. I don't know why it is so, only that it worked, so it will be useful for some mouse problems, I don't know if it will be solving your mouse problem.
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Re: No mouse cursor in new install of LL3.8
« Reply #3 on: July 21, 2018, 02:33:02 AM »
 

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Tried your suggestion and the results were the same. I did reboot.
Thanks for the help, but no joy at this point.
 

Re: No mouse cursor in new install of LL3.8
« Reply #2 on: July 20, 2018, 09:28:02 PM »
 

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Hello jimc,

on this link https://symless.com/forums/topic/3553-ubuntu-invisible-cursor/

it says to enter this in to terminal (hold down Ctrl and Alt Key and press t)

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

No mouse cursor in new install of LL3.8
« Reply #1 on: July 20, 2018, 09:05:16 PM »
 

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i have used LL 3.8 in various situations with no problems.
Now install on an an Acer R1600. In both the live version and a version installed on a hard drive I have no mouse cursor. I can right click on the desktop and get the desktop menu but still no cursor.
I have tried this with both a wired USB mouse and a Bluetooth mouse with the same results.
Any help would be appreciated.
 

 

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