Regarding enhanced zoom, I would not recommend to enable 'Sync Mouse'. I can't acknowledge that you have to log out when changing any options, or that compiz fusion gets unstable, please try it again! Every option I have changed so far was enabled or disabled immediately, without logging out or rebooting. Comments:Įnhanced Zoom is great, please try it again! But the whole zoom plugin failed to work properly anymore, so I've just disabled it completely. Disabling those options, then logging out and back in, fixed my busy cursors. The various pieces of Linux/Ubuntu/Gnome/Compiz apparently don't work together so well. The size of the cursor will now always stay the same, but it will also not disappear anymore. The solution is to disable the options mentioned above, and probably use the 'Sync Mouse' option, log out and log back in.

It only occurs after the first usage of the zoom function.

This is also why the bug appears so random. After zooming out the static cursors are restored, but the animated are not. Apparently the 'Scale the mouse pointer' and 'Hide original mouse pointer' options of the Enhanced Zoom plugin from Compz Fusion work by changing the size of the cursor to 1x1. I'm actually running Ubuntu Hardy, but the issue was the same: The problem with animated mouse cursors disappearing (like the loading cursor in Firefox) is described here. A series of searches (eventually, ' ubuntu hourglass cursor disappear') led me to an Ubuntu Forums post: Re: Gutsy Gibbon (xubuntu): Mouse cursor disappears!!. Before long, I noticed it was happening when I would have expected an 'hourglass' cursor. For a little while now, I've had my mouse cursor sporadically appear and disappear.

Mouse cursor disappears and reappears