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The mouse cursor disappears after a while. It happens randomly with any software (Chrome, Skype, terminal, LibreOffice etc...). The mouse still works though.It just the cursor which disappears.
I cannot find a pattern why it disappears or what makes it disappear. The only fix is to reboot (logout does not work). It works for a while after the reboot, then it disappears again. It only disappears when I move the mouse which makes me thing it could a be GPU driver bug (the screen is not redrawn correctly). I could be wrong obviously.

I've tried standard login and Wayland. It happens with both. I guess it's related to the hardware as I tried the same Ubuntu version on a different computer with an Intel GPU and it does not occur on it.

Only Ubuntu is installed on the drive (macOS is not). Ubuntu detects the GPU as Rv730.

Is there a way I can bring the cursor back without rebooting?

zetoune
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Switching to a software mouse cursor fixed it for me. https://www.reddit.com/r/freebsd/comments/chjalp/xorg_cursor_disappeared/

Basically adding an xorg section for SWCursor:

create just a tiny file named something like 'swcursor.conf' under /etc/X11/xorg.conf.d/ containing the following:

    Section "Device"
       Identifier "device1"
       Option "SWcursor"
    EndSection
Dave Smith
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The solution requires additional lines in the file when using ubuntu 24+

Section "Device"
        Identifier "Device0"
        Driver "intel"
        Option "AccelMethod" "uxa"
        Option "SWCursor" "on"
EndSection
user68186
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Edmond Ying
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