Mouse cursor disappearing

[sez]

Hi everyone,

Has anybody else noticed their mouse cursor disappearing a few seconds after you stop moving it? It's driving me crazy. This must've only happened in the last few days, and I can't figure out what's causing it.

I've tried removing my .kde folder and starting fresh, but the cursor still disappears. I tried purging all KDE packages from my system, and then reinstalling kubuntu-full, but the problem is still there.

Not sure what to do except a format and reinstall, but that seems awfully drastic.

Thanks for any help you can offer!

--Rich

[james147]

Try creating anew user first and see if they have the same problem.

[sez]

Same problem. The issue doesn't exist on the KDM login screen; it only happens after logging in.

I've tried with desktop effects on and off, and either way, it still happens. I'm stumped.

[lcorken]

I had something like that about a year ago. The mouse pointer would disappear when hovering over a link but come back when moved again. Never did solve the problem. Sorry.>

http://www.kubuntuforums.net/showthr...imes-disappear

For me it seemed to be related to old hardware. Same thing happened with gnome, also Fedora. I gave up and started using Lubuntu. That worked well. I now use newer hardware that works fine with Kubuntu. The old one will soon be setup as a server.

Ken.

[sez]

Hm; it's an almost three year-old Dell Latitude E6500 laptop with Intel video. It's run Kubuntu all its life. I'm wondering if my system is just crufty after multiple upgrades and needs a fresh install. I think I may have gone from 10.04 -> 10.10 -> 11.04 -> 11.10 -> 12.04 on this thing. :-)

--Rich

[Snowhog]

What type of mouse?

[OneLine]

Do you have the package unclutter /1/ installed ?

Earlier/AskUbuntu : http://askubuntu.com/questions/11242...kage-unclutter


Links:

1. http://packages.ubuntu.com/precise/unclutter

hides the mouse cursor in X after a period of inactivity

[sez]

Do you have the package unclutter /1/ installed ?

Yes I did, and removing it fixed it! Thank you!

A couple days ago I decided I wanted the full Kubuntu experience, and I installed the kubuntu-full package. Interestingly enough, when I purged unclutter, kubuntu-full also uninstalled, so unclutter is a dependency on kubuntu-full. It's probably too late in the game to change that, but I would think this dependency should be removed.

Thanks again!

--Rich

[ardvark71]

Hi Rich...

Glad you were able to get it fixed.

If you would, please mark this thread as "SOLVED."

Thanks...

[lcorken]

Being curious I installed unclutter to play with. Be nice if it had an entry in system settings or a hot key to turn it on and off.

Ken.