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etakeh32

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From: Pridnestrovie

Registered: 2014-03-08

Posts: 66

[SOLVED] XFCE4 mouse cursor disappears after wallpaper loads

Hello dear community!

Today I booted my laptop and no mouse cursor. It shows for a few seconds at boot (autologin + autostart xfce) and disappears around the same time the wallpaper appears. I don't remember making any changes to the system before this issue started.

Ran system upgrade and I reinstalled all packages using "# pacman -Qenq | pacman -S -" - issue remained
VNC'd into the box and set a different cursor theme.  - issue remained.

Any help would be appreciated!

Last edited by etakeh32 (2014-04-30 23:30:10)

etakeh32

Member

From: Pridnestrovie

Registered: 2014-03-08

Posts: 66

Re: [SOLVED] XFCE4 mouse cursor disappears after wallpaper loads

I remembered that I checked Gnome-Setting-Daemon and GPG Password Agent in the Autostart yesterday. I undid those changes and also cleared saved session, rebooted, and now I have a cursor again. I'm not sure if it was clearing the saved session or unchecking autostart of Gnome-Settings-Daemon that fixed the issue, but give this a shot if you run into the same problem and reinstall xfce and xorg doesn't resolve the issue.

bnahill

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Registered: 2014-05-02

Posts: 2

Re: [SOLVED] XFCE4 mouse cursor disappears after wallpaper loads

Thanks! I had the same problem. I had gotten rid of a few items in my session startup but ultimately it was the Gnome Settings Daemon that did it for me.