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0009336Kali LinuxKali Package Bugpublic2025-10-07 02:172025-12-09 11:20
ReporterJezzez Assigned Toarnaudr  
PrioritynormalSeverityminorReproducibilityhave not tried
Status closedResolutionduplicate 
Summary0009336: Mouse cursor disappears after full-upgrade on VMWare.
Description

After running sudo apt update && sudo apt full-upgrade and rebooting, the mouse cursor disappears.

I'm using VMware with a Linux Mint host, but the same issue has also been reported by another user running VMware on a Windows 11 host (see: Kali Forum thread https://forums.kali.org/t/mouse-cursor-not-visible-any-more-after-kernel-update-on-vmware-guest/13668)

You can easily reproduce this issue by downloading the latest Kali image, launching it as a VMware guest, performing a full upgrade, and then rebooting. After reboot, the mouse cursor will no longer be visible.

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duplicate of 0009346 new kali linux lost mouse cursor after update 

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Isolator

Isolator

2025-10-21 14:01

reporter   ~0020900

I did an update & upgrade probably on 18 Oct and I now have annoying Kali GUI without the mouse pointer whenever my Kali VM is active.
Setup is: Win11/VM-Ware
It has happened to both of my Kali VMs.
kali-bugreport

kali-bugreport

2025-10-22 16:25

reporter   ~0020901

Maybe duplicate of 0009346

Probably this from 0009355 valid here as well (just drop the "QEMU") what has been stated by some one from the Kali team:

Hello, we can't work on this kind of issues, we don't have the bandwidth. Plus, this is very unlikely to be an issue that is specific to Kali, I guess you'll have the same issue if you try to run Debian testing, with a XFCE desktop, in QEMU.

Hopefully the issue will be fixed with new version of QEMU, or new release of XFCE, or anything in between (graphics stack, input stack, I have no idea).
arnaudr

arnaudr

2025-12-09 11:20

manager   ~0021003

Closing as duplicate of 0009346

Issue History

Date Modified Username Field Change
2025-10-07 02:17 Jezzez New Issue
2025-10-21 14:01 Isolator Note Added: 0020900
2025-10-22 16:25 kali-bugreport Note Added: 0020901
2025-12-09 11:20 arnaudr Note Added: 0021003
2025-12-09 11:20 arnaudr Assigned To => arnaudr
2025-12-09 11:20 arnaudr Status new => closed
2025-12-09 11:20 arnaudr Resolution open => duplicate
2025-12-09 11:20 arnaudr Relationship added duplicate of 0009346