I have nearly the same problem. I have recently upgraded to 13.10 and the invisible-mouse-cursor problem immediately affected me. Basically, I have the following:
- I have no visible cursor inside LightDM during login - I have no visible cursor inside the Lubuntu session of LXDE. Although I can click and perform all mouse activities. - For a brief moment, after successful login between the Lightdm and LXDE session, I can see the X server's default mouse cursor. But it disappears as soon as LXDE is started. I found a rather dumb way of fixing the problem and I have no clue why it worked. 1. Created a new user called 'dummy' 2. Logged out from my default user session (where the mouse cursor is invisible). Alternatively you could do 'sudo service restart lightdm' if clicking the right button becomes tedious due to the "invisible" cursor 3. From LightDM, logged in as 'dummy' - great, mouse cursor is visible here. 4. Logged out from 'dummy' user session 5. From LightDM, Logged in as the default user - voila! mouse cursor is back! Other tricks that I had tried: - sudo update-alternatives --display x-cursor-theme ## make sure it is set to a theme that you have installed on your machine - Check ~/.config/lxsession/Lubuntu or ~/.config/lxsession/LXDE to make sure it matches what you have set above Hope it helps. -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Desktop Packages, which is subscribed to gnome-settings-daemon in Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1238410 Title: Inconsistent cursor visibility with cursor plugin enabled Status in “gnome-settings-daemon” package in Ubuntu: Confirmed Bug description: On fresh boots the greeter & desktop may have the cursor visible or may not until mouse is moved. On a log out/in the cursor is almost always invisible until mouse is moved. (unless made visible in greeter screen, then visible on Desktop This is all well & good, maybe some intentional aesthetics/design (https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=687791) , however sometimes the cursor never becomes visible. In that case hitting some keys or context menu can cause it to show, though most times a log out is needed. (with the removal of ctrl+alt+delete > log out this means most users will need to either blindly find the session indicator or hit power button. When the g-s-d cursor plugin is disabled then the cursor is always visible, it the plugin has no use in an ubuntu session then maybe it should be default disabled There is also the possibility, particularly on ssd drives, of a login with no session indicator. This occasionally combines with no visible cursor. ProblemType: Bug DistroRelease: Ubuntu 13.10 Package: gnome-settings-daemon 3.8.5-0ubuntu7 ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 3.11.0-12.18-generic 3.11.3 Uname: Linux 3.11.0-12-generic x86_64 ApportVersion: 2.12.5-0ubuntu1 Architecture: amd64 Date: Fri Oct 11 00:38:16 2013 InstallationDate: Installed on 2013-10-03 (8 days ago) InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 13.10 "Saucy Salamander" - Beta amd64 (20131002) MarkForUpload: True SourcePackage: gnome-settings-daemon UpgradeStatus: No upgrade log present (probably fresh install) To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/gnome-settings-daemon/+bug/1238410/+subscriptions -- Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~desktop-packages Post to : desktop-packages@lists.launchpad.net Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~desktop-packages More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp