I've had this problem for about a year (from memory) on both Debian and Ubuntu. My situation may be uncommon though - I run gnome-fallback/flashback or whatever it is called now so I can run a gnome desktop with fvwm.
I discovered my problem to be related to the gnome settings daemon cursor plugin. Turning it off made my cursor come back: $ gsettings set org.gnome.settings-daemon.plugins.cursor active false I can reproduce this (currently under Ubuntu, but I'll give it another try when I get to my Debian desktop tonight) by setting that key to true: $ gsettings set org.gnome.settings-daemon.plugins.cursor active true I have no idea what this plugin is meant to do and I see no detrimental affects from turning it off. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-rc-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org