Maybe duplicate of https://bugs.kali.org/view.php?id=9336

Where do you run Kali? baremetal, in a VM? Which VM?

What is your desktop environment? XFCE? GNOME? KDE?

Thanks

I just upgraded my Kali VM to latest (QEMU VM, XFCE desktop), and the moust cursor is still there after reboot.

okie

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).

Good afternoon.

I had this same issue with the cursor disappearing in XFCE and GNOME after doing an upgrade in Kali on my VMWare Workstation image (downloaded from the Kali site probably 6 months or so ago).

To try and resolve the issue, I upgraded VMWare Workstation to the latest from the Broadcom site, still no luck. I also tried pulling the latest virtual machine image for VMWare from the Kali site, ran updates in Kali, and still had the same issue.

The only way I could get a cursor was by using kernel 6.12.38-1kali1. Every time I tried to load into 6.16.8-1kali1 my cursor would disappear for some reason.

Today I decided to do a fresh install using the ISO and build the image from scratch. I was surprised that after loading in to Kali and running updates, I can now boot into 6.16 with no mouse issues. This was driving me crazy for weeks where I was forced to use 6.12 but now happy to be able to use the latest version. Hopefully this works with all future updates and kernel versions will work as well. I guess now I just need to customize the new image with all my previous settings and configurations.

Hope this works for others and helps!