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Yesterday my mouse cursor got into a fight with a terminal cursor and lost. No not really, but suddenly it changed to being chopped up so that parts of it are shifted. It still works, but its distracting to look at and I'm wondering if there is a way to fix it without rebooting.

Cursor messed up

When I take a screenshot from gimp it shows up ok:

normal cursor from gimp screenshot

I'm using 64-bit Xubuntu 14.04 and my graphics card is a Radeon HD 6670/7670 according to lspci. I'm using the fglrx driver. Another weird thing is that it only shows up this way on one of the screens (I think screen 2 in radeon settings). Its fine on the other screen.

deltaray
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This works for me when Ubuntu Mate 14.10 corrupts my mouse cursor. It doesn't require a restart.

Ctrl+Alt+F2
Ctrl+Alt+F7

I always get this bug when dragging an image with Eye of Mate image viewer, and a TTY switch makes it go away. Restarting also works, but changing the cursor in the appearance settings does not.

dmiller309
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