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This answer to this question fixed my mouse cursor which had disappeared and was not responding to inputs. The answer suggested going into text mode (using Ctrl+Alt+F1 ) and immediately back to graphical mode (using Ctrl+Alt+F7) and it worked perfectly well. Why does this happen though, does the interface get restarted or something similar when we do this?

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Sometimes, the display of the mouse cursor is implemented as a hardware overlay a.k.a. "sprite". There is an X.org option called HWCursor (hardware cursor).

So resetting all the graphics modes may fix an error in the hardware cursor configuration.

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