Unable to see mouse pointer without mouse
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Yesterday, My mouse (hardware) stopped working and I removed (plugged-out) mouse. Then I restarted my Desktop-PC. Now mouse pointer is not shown on Desktop. In order to work-around, I've turned on Mouse keys but I can't see pointer on screen. So, How can I get pointer displayed on screen so-that I can work with mouse keys?
Hi Pandya,
How did your mouse stop working? Right now, I'm also having some issues with my mouse. Sometimes, a normal click is counted as a double-click and this behavior is really starting to get on my nerves. Maybe this could be related in some way as this bug seems to have been introduced with the recent updates.
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Have you played with the mouse settings yet? You can change the double-click time to something slower using those settings.
Surprisingly, the problem seems to be gone now after a simple reboot. I don't really know why; maybe it was a hardware issue...
Don't want to focus on How did mouse stop working. The issue is as explained https://trisquel.info/en/forum/unable-see-mouse-pointer-without-mouse#comment-98758
Was it a USB or PS/2 mouse? With a cord or wireless?
Do you have a numeric keypad?
There's something here:
https://askubuntu.com/questions/88948/control-mouse-pointer-with-keyboard-without-a-number-pad
It was USB mouse but now nothing to do with Hardware (Mouse). The issue is I can't see "Mouse Pointer". Note that Now, I've no Mouse (Hardware) and hence I want to control pointer with mouse-keys but the problem is Unable to see pointer on screen. I've restarted but mouse pointer isn't displayed.
In other words, In order to control pointer with mouse-keys by means of numeric keypad, We should be able to see mouse pointer on screen which is missing!
Try with another display manager. Install Gdm if you have Lightdm now.
sudo apt-get install gdm
sudo dpkg-reconfigure gdm
Just tried installing and configuring gdm. After restarting login screen changed (as a result of gdm). When I login, mouse pointer displayed just for 2 seconds and then disappears again (before I reach to Desktop). So, still unable to see the pointer and work with it.
Ok, then change back to Lightdm. If no cursor or pointer, reinstall Lightdm. It might be necessary to reinstall Xserver, too.
Before that, try Magic Banana's trick. Deactivate and reactivate Metacity's compositing.
https://trisquel.info/en/forum/window-resizing-issue#comment-91380
Ok, I've reinstalled lightdm and now, I can see pointer at login screen but not on Desktop. How do I reinstall Xserver? give the package-name. There is no package with exact name xserver. There are x11-xserver-utilities, xserver-common, xserver-xorg etc.
I think it's this.
http://packages.trisquel.info/belenos/xserver-xorg
You need these:
xserver-xorg xserver-xorg-core xfonts-base xinit
Ok, I've done:
sudo apt-get install --reinstall xserver-xorg xserver-xorg-core xfonts-base xinit
And packages are re-installed successfully. And I also restarted but still I can't see mouse pointer on the Desktop!
It could be Metacity-related.
http://packages.trisquel.info/belenos/metacity
It doesn't hurt to reinstall that. I'm at my wit's end.
Try deactivating compositing.
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Does this work? https://itsfoss.com/invisible-mouse-cursor-ubuntu-1310/
That link says to just do this in a terminal:
gsettings set org.gnome.settings-daemon.plugins.cursor active false
The first comment on that post has a different work around.
Yes, worked for me. Thanks!
By the way, is there any way to increase the speed of moving pointer through mouse-keys?
I thought of Xsetroot.
xsetroot -def
https://www.x.org/archive/X11R7.7/doc/man/man1/xsetroot.1.xhtml
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