[TriLUG] x2go magic disappearing mouse cursor

[Jym Williams Zavada via TriLUG]

Brian,

I recently had a similar problem: I was using an RDP client on Linux to 
connect to a host running Win2012 Server, and the cursor wouldn't appear 
inside the RDP window.  Here's what I did to fix it, maybe it will work for 
you too (if you're not working with the same Windows version, you'll 
probably have to tweak it, though):

- RDP to host and log in

- Hover over the Start/Window icon at the left of the task bar, then click 
to open

- Hover over "Control Panel", then click to open

- When the "Control Panel" window appears, hit the Tab key ONCE, then press
Enter

- In the dropdown that appears, use the Down-arrow key to highlight "Small
icons", then press Enter

- Hover over Mouse, then click to open

- When the "Mouse Properties" window appears, use Shift-Tab to highlight the 
folder tabs, then use the Right-arrow key to bring up the Pointers folder 
tab

- Press Alt-E to uncheck the "Enable pointer shadow" checkbox, then use 
Alt-A to "press" the Apply button.

- If the cursor doesn't immediatly appear, you will have to logout and then
log back in again, using the following instructions.

- Use Shift-Tab to highlight the OK button, then press Enter

- Hover over the Start/Window icon at the left of the task bar, then click 
to open

- Hover over your Name in the upper left, then click to get a dropdown

- In the dropdown, hover over "Sign out", then click to log out.


On Tue, 23 Feb 2016 at 15:22, Brian Henning via TriLUG wrote:

> Hi Y'all!
>
> Thanks for the tips toward x2go.  It's perfect.  Except...
>
> If I resume a session fullscreen on a windows client, the mouse cursor is invisible.  I did some googling and came up with several threads dating back to 2010, but nothing very recent.  A couple of suggestions I found did not work (Ctrl+Alt+D; restarting x2go-client).
>
> Windowed sessions don't exhibit the problem, but I really hate giving up those 40 pixels for the title bar...
>
> Anybody know any tricks?
>
> Thanks,
> -Brian
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