LXDE Forums

Posted: **Wed Apr 27, 2011 12:07 am**

Hello.
Whole evening trying to solve problem with missing mouse cursor with no success. Mouse actually works, I can click on things on desktop and menus, but without cursor.
I installed Debian LXDE from that iso: debian-6.0.1a-i386-xfce+lxde-CD-1.iso with on-line updating on old laptop Umax VisionBook 805CX.
Googled quite alot, I tried some advices. I tought this one would help, if nothing else, but it didnt:

Code: Select all

sudo mkdir /usr/share/icons/default
sudo rm * /usr/share/icons/default
sudo apt-get install crystalcursors
sudo update-alternatives --config x-cursor-theme

I choose some crystal theme and rebooted - still no damn cursor.
I tried to add line into [GTK] section of ~/.config/lxsession/LXDE/desktop.conf:
sGtk/CursorThemeName=crystalgray
with no succes.
Please tell me whats wrong, if someone can.

Posted: **Wed Apr 27, 2011 3:23 pm**

xorg is not that well documented there.
I was looking for that some time ago with this conclusion:
/usr/share/cursors/xorg-x11/default/
is the default location for system wide cursors
"user-wide" was ~/.icons/default/

Posted: **Wed Apr 27, 2011 9:34 pm**

poedel:
I found this hints too and tried them - booth systemwide and userwide.

I copied index.theme and crystal* directories into sugested places, rebooted with no succes.

Posted: **Thu Apr 28, 2011 11:00 pm**

I found that this issue is known bug in 2.6.32-5-686 kernel. It affects systems with some intel graphic cards on Debian systems. Mouse pointer appears after wake from hibernation or sleep mode and works until power off. Options to take are to wait for kernel fix, or downgrade kernel. More about this bug is in this forum:
http://forums.debian.net/viewtopic.php? ... 7&start=15

LXDE Forums

No mouse cursor visible

No mouse cursor visible

Re: No mouse cursor visible

Re: No mouse cursor visible

Re: No mouse cursor visible