cursor disappears frequently

[Michael Zanetti]

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.

[Marco Trevisan (Treviño) (3v1n0)]

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

[knulp haller (knulphaller)]

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

[Robert Ancell (robert-ancell)]

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

[Michael Zanetti (mzanetti)]

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.

[Daniel van Vugt (vanvugt)]

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...