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L. D. James
Asked: 2015-07-15 05:45:52 +0800 CST

How to disable mouse cursor autohide

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I'm using Ubuntu 15.04. Suddenly it my mouse cursor is only visible when I move it. Can someone help me with a way to make it always stay visible. It appears that somehow a mouse cursor autohide feature has inadvertently gotten activated.

I have searched the forum. All references to the mouse cursor is either autohide, helping the users with how to hide the mouse cursor, or other unrelated issues like no cursor at all.

I'm trying to do the opposite of the other titles. I'm trying to make my mouse stay always visible, like a default installation.

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  1. Best Answer

    I faced same problem, but in Ubuntu 14.04. In fact, I liked that feature, but since I switched to Opera instead of Chrome, I found annoying bug making it impossible for me to scroll websites, each time cursor hid.

    Anyways, my solution was simply to remove unclutter package.
    sudo apt-get remove unclutter

    If that doesn't help you, make sure that unclutter is really stopped.
    ps -A | grep unclutter

    Or simply run sudo pkill -9 unclutter.

    Hope that helps you, but I believe you've already found the solution after 9 months :')

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