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Mouse cursor is flickering and disappearing

Writer Andrew Mclaughlin

After installing Ubuntu 14.04, my cursor is disappearing on my laptop (Dell inspiron 5110 with nvidia gforce GPU). I tried several answers, but the problem is not solved.

I tried this:

Open System Settings > Displays. In the Displays window, you will see an Unknown monitor. Click it and disable it.

and this answer:

gsettings set org.gnome.settings-daemon.plugins.cursor active false

Both solutions did not work. Do you have any suggestions?

2 Answers

I solved this problem by installing the Nvidia GeForce GPU drivers using this command:

sudo apt-get install bumblebee bumblebee-nvidia primus linux-headers-generic
2

That seems like a graphic driver issue.

Go to Ubuntu software center -> Edit -> software Sources -> Additional Drivers.

Select the default Nvidia driver that comes without update and let it install. Reboot and check.

Let us know if this works.

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