Zorin 17.1 pro cursor issue

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still looking for help here

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It has been about a month since your OP reporting sticky cursor syndrome.
I believe the devs have done a few OS updates since then, as 17.1r1 has also been released.
When you first installed Z17.1 Pro, did you first verify the downloaded .iso against the published SHA256 checksum for that file?
i.e. to confirm not currupted during download.

Have you used Software Updater to install Operating System updates.

Is the sticky cursor when using a trackpad or mouse or both?
Have you had a look at Zorin>Settings>Trackpad ?

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i have done the updates and verified them. i dont have or use a trackpad so nothing to do there. this has been a issue since i was on 16. whatever. old issue that never gets resolved

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It would be interesting to see if there are any differences between the files that handle both graphics and other types of mouse configuration of a user who doesn't have these problems and yours. Does anyone know where these files are? A search for cursor gives hundreds of results. Also, BenNoyles, is the issue that the cursor appearance is blocked in the wrong state? For example that it stays in the loading animation despite there's nothing loading? Is it this that you meant?

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yes... or stays on scroll bar on main pages... resize icon on main pages..i have to spazz the mouse all over the screen to fix it

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umm i have no .profile

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The file is hidden since its name starts with a . so you have to set your file manager to show hidden files until you want to use this kind of files.

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i found it but im still lost on where to set the theme in that as i didnt really see a example in a file... can you help there. i saw a mention of flatseal...can you use that to set a theme globally thru the system or is it not as effective as the .profile

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This is the content of my .profile:

# ~/.profile: executed by the command interpreter for login shells.
# This file is not read by bash(1), if ~/.bash_profile or ~/.bash_login
# exists.
# see /usr/share/doc/bash/examples/startup-files for examples.
# the files are located in the bash-doc package.

# the default umask is set in /etc/profile; for setting the umask
# for ssh logins, install and configure the libpam-umask package.
#umask 022

# if running bash
if [ -n "$BASH_VERSION" ]; then
    # include .bashrc if it exists
    if [ -f "$HOME/.bashrc" ]; then
	. "$HOME/.bashrc"
    fi
fi

# set PATH so it includes user's private bin if it exists
if [ -d "$HOME/bin" ] ; then
    PATH="$HOME/bin:$PATH"
fi

# set PATH so it includes user's private bin if it exists
if [ -d "$HOME/.local/bin" ] ; then
    PATH="$HOME/.local/bin:$PATH"
fi

If you want to try with mine please make a copy of your current .profile and paste it somewhere so if trying with mine you don't see any helpful changes you can restore your own .profile.

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you dont have the cursor theme set in there do ya?

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i dont know what im supposed to put in there.

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advice?

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still no fix

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On your home you can create a new .txt named .profile, paste the text I wrote on my previous message and maybe works, it's weird that you don't have that file, it's hidden but actually exists, at least by what I saw since I have Zorin OS Core.

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still no dice there any other ideas

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The only Idea I would have is, that You try it with Xorg but when I understand that here right You already tried that.

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The only things I can think of now are checking the mouse's internal components and trying another mouse. I once had a problem with mine, the lens inside had come out of its housing, causing wrong cursor directions and sudden stops in movement. Checking the inside of a mouse isn't that difficult, I've opened a few myself and they're pretty easy to check. Some dust/dirt on the lens can cause troubles, too. If the issue had been on a laptop it would have been interesting, faster and easier to compare the cursor behavior between a mouse and the touchpad.

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i have tried other mice.. same thing and i tried xorg. no difference

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Alright, assuming they weren't all dirty/broken :grin:, we can now exclude a hardware defect :slightly_smiling_face:. Well, unless the problem is the USB port :thinking:, I hope yours are all fine.

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I am also facing this issue. Happens with laptop trackpad as well as bluetooth mouse.
Laptop is new and the mouse works well on other os (mac and windows).

I read somewhere that this could be related to wayland lacking support for higher refresh rate.
I am using an external monitor with 165Hz refresh rate.