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After installing Ubuntu 14.04, my cursor is disappearing on my laptop (Dell inspiron 5110 with nvidia gforce GPU). I tried several answers, but the problem is not solved.

I tried this:

Open System Settings > Displays. In the Displays window, you will see an Unknown monitor. Click it and disable it.

and this answer:

gsettings set org.gnome.settings-daemon.plugins.cursor active false

Both solutions did not work. Do you have any suggestions?

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I solved this problem by installing the Nvidia GeForce GPU drivers using this command:

sudo apt-get install bumblebee bumblebee-nvidia primus linux-headers-generic
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  • Do you have the same for AMD ATI GPUs?
    – Xenos
    Apr 11, 2018 at 8:13
  • This made the whole desktop unusable after login. Screen is frozen, cant click anyhthing. Made things so much more worse.
    – Dave
    Mar 26, 2022 at 2:59
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That seems like a graphic driver issue.

Go to Ubuntu software center -> Edit -> software Sources -> Additional Drivers.

Select the default Nvidia driver that comes without update and let it install. Reboot and check.

Let us know if this works.

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  • i try to set up Nvidia and can't get my desktop after remove it from shell i get my desktop Sep 11, 2014 at 17:40
  • There are a bunch of drivers in the driver list for graphics. Try Them all. There must be like 4 of them. See if any of them works for you. Sep 13, 2014 at 6:40
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    i solved this problem by install nvidia gforce GPU using this command sudo apt-get install bumblebee bumblebee-nvidia primus linux-headers-generic Nov 7, 2015 at 10:27

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