Mouse cursor disappears after locking screen

[Yann Salmon]

I recently installed XUbuntu 16.04 on my Latitude E7450 laptop.

The mouse cursor disappears when I lock then unlock the session. The mouse is still functional but the cursor is not displayed.

This bug is similar to #492782 but I do not think it is a duplicate as there no need to suspend to RAM or disk for it to express.
However the symptoms and workarounds are similar : switching to a virtual console then back restores the cursor ; so does running gedit and typing text in it.

Note the the symptoms only start after the session has been unlocked : the mouse cursor is visible on the login screen. It does not seem to be managed by the same process there however (sign of this : I set the cursor to a bigger size in my session but this does not take effect in the login screen).

[Paul White (paulw2u)]

YS1, bug 492782 is filed against xserver-xorg-video-intel.
Please confirm your graphics, Intel or otherwise as what you are describing
seems to be very similar to the already widely reported bug 1568604.
Thanks.

[Yann Salmon (yannsalmon)]

You are right ; my computer has two graphics card and it may be the case that the Intel card (driver i915) is in use.

[Paul White (paulw2u)]

Will mark as duplicate of bug 1568604 as problem seems to be related to the widely reported Intel problem.