[ale] no mouse in XFCE4

[Jim Kinney]

so you can't SEE the pointer but it will activate buttons if you get lucky
and find them.

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.


On Tue, Dec 17, 2013 at 3:01 PM, Paul Cartwright <pbcartwright at gmail.com>wrote:

> I have ubuntu 13.10 installed, and I have a Logitech wireless mouse. I
> know I've used it before in XFCE, but I recently did a re-install.. and
> I usually run MATE desktop. I installed XFCE4, and when I login, there
> is no mouse pointer. If I move the mouse up the the upper left it
> actually will activate the menus, I was able to hit the LOGOUT button.
> What am I missing?
>
> all I see in syslog is:
> syslog
> Dec 17 15:34:42 pauls-server kernel: [    1.084121] mousedev: PS/2 mouse
> device common for all mice
>
> which is weird, because the date command shows this:
> # date
> Tue Dec 17 10:43:14 EST 2013
>
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