{"id":4231,"date":"2016-08-29T19:40:11","date_gmt":"2016-08-29T19:40:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/really.zonky.org\/?p=4231"},"modified":"2016-08-29T19:40:11","modified_gmt":"2016-08-29T19:40:11","slug":"linux-fixing-the-invisible-mouse-pointer","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/really.zonky.org\/?p=4231","title":{"rendered":"Linux: Fixing The Invisible Mouse Pointer"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>It seems that occasionally GNOME can go a little screwy and its fancy mouse pointer plugin can result in an invisible mouse pointer. Which makes doing anything just a little bit tricky.<\/p>\n<p>If you can open a terminal, enter the command :-<\/p>\n<p><code>gsettings set org.gnome.settings-daemon.plugins.cursor active false<\/code><\/p>\n<p>And all should be well. At least until it decides to turn itself back on again (so make a note of this fix!).<\/p>\n<p><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-3904\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/really.zonky.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/damascus-unix-prompt1.png?resize=695%2C463&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"damascus-unix-prompt\" width=\"695\" height=\"463\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/really.zonky.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/damascus-unix-prompt1.png?w=792&amp;ssl=1 792w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/really.zonky.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/damascus-unix-prompt1.png?resize=300%2C200&amp;ssl=1 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 695px) 100vw, 695px\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It seems that occasionally GNOME can go a little screwy and its fancy mouse pointer plugin can result in an invisible mouse pointer. Which makes doing anything just a little bit tricky. If you can open a terminal, enter the command :- gsettings set org.gnome.settings-daemon.plugins.cursor active false And all should be well. At least until <a href='https:\/\/really.zonky.org\/?p=4231' class='excerpt-more'>[&#8230;]<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[4,209],"tags":[467,43,1438],"class_list":["post-4231","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-it","category-linux-it","tag-gnome","tag-linux","tag-mouse-pointer","category-4-id","category-209-id","post-seq-1","post-parity-odd","meta-position-corners","fix"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"","error":""},"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p1f2KI-16f","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/really.zonky.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4231","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/really.zonky.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/really.zonky.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/really.zonky.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/really.zonky.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=4231"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/really.zonky.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4231\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4232,"href":"https:\/\/really.zonky.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4231\/revisions\/4232"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/really.zonky.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4231"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/really.zonky.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4231"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/really.zonky.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4231"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}