<div dir="ltr"><div>so you can't SEE the pointer but it will activate buttons if you get lucky and find them.<br><br></div>That sounds like a bug in the screen drawing portion of X. Try and shutdown, reseat the mouse and start up, then do a system update to see if you got a buggy package. Also test a USB mouse. A different mouse "source" may force the gui to behave better.<br>
</div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Tue, Dec 17, 2013 at 3:01 PM, Paul Cartwright <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:pbcartwright@gmail.com" target="_blank">pbcartwright@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br>
<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">I have ubuntu 13.10 installed, and I have a Logitech wireless mouse. I<br>
know I've used it before in XFCE, but I recently did a re-install.. and<br>
I usually run MATE desktop. I installed XFCE4, and when I login, there<br>
is no mouse pointer. If I move the mouse up the the upper left it<br>
actually will activate the menus, I was able to hit the LOGOUT button.<br>
What am I missing?<br>
<br>
all I see in syslog is:<br>
syslog<br>
Dec 17 15:34:42 pauls-server kernel: [ 1.084121] mousedev: PS/2 mouse<br>
device common for all mice<br>
<br>
which is weird, because the date command shows this:<br>
# date<br>
Tue Dec 17 10:43:14 EST 2013<br>
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