[RESOLVED] cursor has disappeared (become invisible)

[rpallen]

I installed manjaro 15-12-xfce today and it WAS working fine.  But suddenly the cursor has become invisible.  It hasn't actually disappeared.  If I move around on the touch pad, when it goes over something that changes when the cursor is over it, the object changes, so I can sometimes "see" where the cursor actually is, but I can't see the cursor.

This happened after I changed some desktop settings, including changing the desktop wallpaper to a gradient, among other things.

When I reboot, there is also no cursor visible on the log-in screen.

Though I'm no linux expert, I have used several versions of linux over the years and have never seen anything like this and I have no idea how I should proceed.

[c00ter]

Have you updated & rebooted? It is a known problem but recent updates should have fixed it. If not, it can easily be repaired by changing 'sna' to 'uxa' in your 20-intel.conf or related file.

Regards.

[badbodh]

check this out https://forum.manjaro.org/index.php?topic=31999.msg262240#msg262240
alternatively you can just add the proposed changes to /etc/X11/xorg.conf.d/90-mhwd.conf

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Option      "AccelMethod" "uxa"
Option      "SWCursor"    "on"

i'm not sure if mhwd replaces ^ that config after update, so i always create a separate config file in the same folder. name it 99-intel.conf and write

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Section "Device"
Identifier  "Device0"
Driver      "intel"
Option      "AccelMethod" "uxa"
Option      "SWCursor"    "on"
EndSectionCheck your 90-mhwd.conf if you wanna include other stuff.

@c00ter i used 20-intel.conf in other distros, in manjaro because of 90-mhwd.conf gotta name it higher than 90 to be read last. i'd correct my earlier posts but i'm too lazy

[c00ter]

check this out https://forum.manjaro.org/index.php?topic=31999.msg262240#msg262240
alternatively you can just add the proposed changes to /etc/X11/xorg.conf.d/90-mhwd.conf

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Option      "AccelMethod" "uxa"
Option      "SWCursor"    "on"

i'm not sure if mhwd replaces ^ that config after update, so i always create a separate config file in the same folder. name it 99-intel.conf and write

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Section "Device"
Identifier  "Device0"
Driver      "intel"
Option      "AccelMethod" "uxa"
Option      "SWCursor"    "on"
EndSectionCheck your 90-mhwd.conf if you wanna include other stuff.

@c00ter i used 20-intel.conf in other distros, in manjaro because of 90-mhwd.conf gotta name it higher than 90 to be read last. i'd correct my earlier posts but i'm too lazy

Ah, cool!  I'm gonna add that to my stock config templates. Thanks.

Yeah, I know I sometimes forget the little niggling differences between Manjaro & Arch, such as some of the soft links. I figure they'll either catch my drift or some kind soul such as yourself will come along and do so. Sorry 'bout that.

Regards

[rpallen]

Have you updated & rebooted? It is a known problem but recent updates should have fixed it. If not, it can easily be repaired by changing 'sna' to 'uxa' in your 20-intel.conf or related file.

Regards.

1. No, I hadn't updated.
2. Last night I changed the desktop configurations back to what they had been and rebooted but the cursor was still invisible.
3. Today, I went to the manjaro installation again to try your suggestion of updating and surprisingly the cursor was VISIBLE.
4. I updated and changed the desktop confiurations back to what I wanted (stop using an image for wallpaper and use a colored gradient for the background).
5. I then rebooted and the cursor was still visible.  I rebooted again and the cursor was then INVISIBLE.
6. I changed the desktop configuration back to having an image as the wallpaper.
7. I rebooted and the cursor was still invisible.
8. After rebooting 2 more times the cursor became visible, so all in all, it took 3 reboots after resetting the desktop configuration for the cursor to become visible again.

Is this an xfce phenomenon or manjaro?
And would the fix described above take care of this?

[badbodh]

1. No, I hadn't updated.
2. Last night I changed the desktop configurations back to what they had been and rebooted but the cursor was still invisible.
3. Today, I went to the manjaro installation again to try your suggestion of updating and surprisingly the cursor was VISIBLE.
4. I updated and changed the desktop confiurations back to what I wanted (stop using an image for wallpaper and use a colored gradient for the background).
5. I then rebooted and the cursor was still visible.  I rebooted again and the cursor was then INVISIBLE.
6. I changed the desktop configuration back to having an image as the wallpaper.
7. I rebooted and the cursor was still invisible.
8. After rebooting 2 more times the cursor became visible, so all in all, it took 3 reboots after resetting the desktop configuration for the cursor to become visible again.

Is this an xfce phenomenon or manjaro?

in short - update, change wallpaper, reboot. Now try something else ^

[c00ter]

Again, the only hack I've found for this, across DEs, is changing 'sna' to 'uxa' whever/whatever that config. file is named or located in Manjaro. I know that Manjaro uses a soft link to/from MSM...

Regards