After updating to Lion my mouse pointer will sometimes disappear on my second monitor. If I move it back to my primary monitor is will return. Doesn't happen with any regular occurrence, seems pretty random. Thoughts?
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******************** I HAVE SOLVED THIS PROBLEM (at least for me) ********************
Ok so I literally just "fixed" it accidentally while working on another tip from another thread.
Going into System Preferences --> Accessibility --> Display, I increased the "Cursor size" and tada! Now it shows up on all screens.
Interestingly/bizarrely, playing around with this feature, it only worked once the Cursor size got about 2/3 between "Normal" and the first tick to the right. Any smaller and it disappears again. This seems strangely arbitrary and I can't figure out why this works. I would think maybe it has something to do with relative resolutions of the monitors but that wouldn't explain why it displays fine on the second, mirrored, monitor.
Hope this helps someone else!
See this article on disappearing cursor, arrogance and mac
http://www.americanthinker.com/2013/03/apples_disappearing_cursor_and_corporate_ arrogance.html
I don't have an extra monitor and I just started having this issue. I'm on a MacBook Pro that's 3 years old now. I had to do what I used to call the "ol' Bill Gates reset," (reboot) to fix it.
This will not be a workable solution if this becomes an ongoing problem.
No need to reboot, just hover your (invisible) mouse over the Dock and it will reappear. I'm so used to this bug in Mountain Lion 10.8 that I will almost miss it when they fix it (which I suppose they will in another year or two).
When I hover over the Dock, the cursor does reappear, but only briefly. I sometimes didn't make it back to the top of the screen before it disappeared again -- and I'm working on a laptop!
The reboot seems to have worked -- at least for the last several hours. I'm hoping to never see (or not see) that particular bug again!
Just fixed this problem so I thought I'd share the solution with anyone still having it: I had a suspicion it had to do with desktop icons that appear at the edge between both screens. I put all my desktop files into a separate folder so the only thing that remained on the desktop was the Macintosh HD icon. I rebooted and the cursor now appears on both screens.
Hope that helps.
Mouse pointer disappears on second monitor.
