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I installed a fresh install of Xubuntu 14.04 and the mouse is not visible on my screen. It works, but it seems to be invisible.

How can I get it on screen?

I had the same problem on a Ubuntu 14.04 Live-CD so it seems to be a problem with my graphics card in Ubuntu in general.

I tried earlier apt-get install nvidia-173 which worked on my old Monitor, but then I couldn't access the desktop anymore with my only 1024x768 LCD-Display, so I had to reinstall.

Maybe a solution would be to configure a right xorg.conf with the old nvidia-173 driver for my computer, but there is no xorg.conf anymore in /etc/X11 so this seems to have changed in 14.04 too.

How would I have to create such a file?

rubo77
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  • Make sure you have done a full system update (in a terminal do sudo apt-get update && sudo apt-get dist-upgrade). If the mouse pointer is still not visible then report the bug on Launchpad. You could try the proprietary drivers as a workaround. – bain Jul 26 '14 at 09:22
  • This might be related http://askubuntu.com/questions/381362/missing-mouse-after-gnome-install – kenn Jul 26 '14 at 10:00

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This time it worked installing 

apt-get install nvidia-common

Important:
Don't run nvidia-config and don't create any xorg.conf file now!

Then reboot

apt-get install nvidia-173

reboot

I don't know if there has to be several reboots, but the first time I tried it without installing nvidia-common first and this messed up with my resolution for my LCD monitor

rubo77
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