Unity

cursor disappears frequently

Bug #1523922 reported by Michael Zanetti
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Unity
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xorg-server (Ubuntu)
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Bug Description

A few times a week, my cursor just disappears.

It is still there, reacting to mouse events, I can see hover events, clicking works too. But the cursor image just disappears which makes it unusable.

Rebooting is the only solution. Restarting unity doesn't recover it.

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Marco Trevisan (Treviño) (3v1n0) wrote :

It's a little weird that this is an unity fauld, I'd think something more related to lower X11 layers.

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knulp haller (knulphaller) wrote :

It is not unity bug, it is a lightdm problem. try to restart lightdm service

affects: unity (Ubuntu) → lightdm (Ubuntu)
Changed in lightdm (Ubuntu):
status: New → Confirmed
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Robert Ancell (robert-ancell) wrote :

LightDM doesn't control the cursor. It's either the X server or Unity.

affects: lightdm (Ubuntu) → xorg-server (Ubuntu)
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Michael Zanetti (mzanetti) wrote :

No idea where the issue is, but it keeps on happening. Yesterday for instance, I had to reboot again. When the system came up, I had a cursor in lightdm, I logged in and the moment unity started, the cursor disappeared and I had logout/login again to get it back.

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Daniel van Vugt (vanvugt) wrote :

I have this all the time on one specific laptop. It's a weird hardware issue and only rebooting (or VT switching) will get the cursor up.

Can't remember last time it happened on any other machine but I think it does...

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