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So, I was trying to drag and drop an image, but for reason I am now stuck with two mouse cursors for some reason (not to mention the image itself is hanging around). image to explain (photo cause the cursor doesn't appear in screenshots) :

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As you can see, there's two cursors - they're also flattened out weirdly, and the image that was being dragged is still there. I have no idea what happened. I'm using Ubuntu 14.10.

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Displays -> Unknown Monitor -> Turn Off. This worked for me. – Akash Kothawale Dec 19 '16 at 3:16
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just go to the display settings and turn off sticky edges !

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Same problem on lubuntu desktop (installed on Ubuntu). Appeared on a single monitor configuration. The setting did not help. – Artemix Jun 20 '15 at 11:34
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it also disappears when i clear system cache... i used this cmd "free && sync && echo 3 >sudo /proc/sys/vm/drop_caches && free" – krishnan Jul 13 '15 at 7:28
    
@krishnan Thanks.. – Steve Desai Jan 29 '16 at 7:42
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Putting krishnan's answer separately, as this seems to occur, even after turning off sticky edges:

free && sync && echo 3 >sudo /proc/sys/vm/drop_caches && free
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I have solved this via "Input > Mouse Integration (uncheck)"

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This was all I had to do (for Kali, which is Debian). – Fixee Oct 15 '17 at 4:13
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This worked for me and deserves to be a separate answer.

Displays -> Unknown Monitor -> Turn Off. This worked for me. – Akash Kothawale Dec 19 '16 at 3:16

I turned off and on my secondary display and the excess pointer disappeared.

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