Questions tagged [cursor]
A cursor is an arrow shown on the screen (a.k.a. a pointer) to represent where the mouse is, or a flashing horizontal line in a terminal or textbox indicating where text will be inserted during typing.
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Changing mouse cursor style in 25.10 has no effect on most applications
In Ubuntu 25.10 GNOME / Wayland (physical machine) it seems that it is not possible to change the cursor style for all applications.
When I try to change the cursor style from gnome-tweaks → ...
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How to programmatically set the system display scale?
I'm trying to adjust the display scale of a fresh Ubuntu 24.04.3 installation from a script.
If I do a fresh install of Ubuntu 24.04.03, go to the display settings, and manually set display scale to ...
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Flickering on pop-up boxes (eg right-click, also Chrome; i915 graphics chipset) 22.04
I have an old computer with an i915 Intel graphics chipset. I started to get flickering problem which appeared in 2025, most notably with right-click pop-up boxes; also when using Chrome browser (not ...
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Cursor disappears on login
I've just installed Ubuntu 25.10 as a VMware (15.5.7) guest. I've had no problems with previous versions and still run 24.04 and 22.04 under VMware. But the latest version has a problem.
At the login ...
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How can I control Ubuntu 24.04 mouse cursor with the right dualshock 4 joystick?
In older distros I've been able to move Ubuntu's mouse cursor with the right joystick of the DS4 and use R2 and L2 for left/right mouse clicks.
In Ubuntu 24.04.3 LTS with the newest Steam snap however ...
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Cursor theme installation not working properly on Ubuntu 24.04
So I've been going around for the past hour or so looking on how to install a cursor theme, and all answers lead to either putting the files in /usr/share/icons or making a ~/.icons folder and putting ...
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A non-standard cursor is appearing on my web page!
Ubuntu 24.04.2LTS
I am getting a strange cursor appearing which I cannot alter. When I left-click and drag on an image, as it moves the cursor changes to a Grab hand with a small Move cross below. ...
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Broken mouse cursor on Ubuntu 25.04
My mouse cursor is a near-invisible white square when using most apps and the desktop. I've found a suggested solution for older Ubuntu with the DMZ-White theme, but creating cursor file links has not ...
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Cursor AI is not preserving the state when I restart the laptop
I have installed the cursor ai in my ubuntu but it is not preserving the state like recently opened projects after restart. I re installed the software still getting the same error. I have used ...
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How to fix custom cursors not being applied system wide?
I downloaded Volantes cursors from Pling-store and when I applied it in Tweaks it worked on system apps, but not on the other apps(i.e. Firefox, Telegram, Steam). It does work on some non-system apps ...
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Mouse cursor goes berserk at bottom of screen
I'm using Ubuntu 22.04 with Cinnamon and lately after doing a lot of browsing, photo editing, etc., my mouse cursor suddenly jumps to the panel line at the bottom of the screen and is uncontrollable.. ...
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Firefox not working after install custom ArcDusk cursor theme
I wanted to get the ArcDusk Cursor theme, but for some reason, Firefox refuses to work after I select it. I tried going back to the Yaru cursor and it works. I switch to ArcDusk and it doesn't. ...
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Touchpad Not Responding to Finger Movement (While Using Opera)
I encountered an issue on my system running Ubuntu 24.10. While using the Opera browser, my touchpad suddenly stopped responding to finger movements. Both touchpad buttons still worked, and the ...
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Cursor huge (ONLY) in Chrome on Ubuntu suddently
all, I'm seeing this huge cursor in all my chrome windows this morning:
For context, tried to install Chromium (via snap, unlike Chrome, which is using .deb) to test and I see the cursor size there ...
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My cursor moves in all windows
When I play War Thunder on my Ubuntu (with Kubuntu desktop environment but it is the same with gnome) and when I Alt Tab to Firefox while using my cursor on firefox my cursor still moves in War ...
