I'm running Linux Mint 16 Cinnamon edition (based on Ubuntu 13.10). Nvidia card, latest drivers (319.32).
With some games, the cursor is not multicoloured as it should be, but an single-colour ochre with a thin black contour. Games affected are Victoria II and Age of Mythology.
I recently upgraded from Mint 15 where I did not have this problem -- the cursor displayed fine, in many colours.
Any pointers (no pun intended) to what could be the cause? I use playonlinux w/ wine and use the latest wine version with those games (1.7..
Why don't you try installing a new desktop? I saw in a forum (I don't remember wich one) long ago this issue, plus when I had Linux Mint 16 petra OS installed in my laptop, I also had this trouble. A guy in that forum came up with a solution. Install the XFCE desktop from the software center, I did so and it worked well. that guy also explained that mint 16 has a lot of issues so as the touchpad issues or the pointer issues and it's because it is needind certain updates. I'm not sure if there was any other process that should be followed before downloading that desktop (you know like updating certain stuffs from the terminal), but if I'm not mistaking that was the name of the desktop.
Do you mean to just install the XFCE4 packages or actually using XFCE instead of cinnamon? The latter is soemthing I certainly can't do...
Anyway, I'm up-to-date with my Mint 16 installation, and on a desktop (not laptop) so I luckily don't have any touchpad issues... running great so far.
After installation of Mint 16 with MATE desktop I have the same issue of single-colour mouse pointer in all the games I tried
Trying XFCE4 didn't help and as it seems that this is on Cinnamon, MATE or XFCE then this issue is rather not 'desktop dependant'
Does anyone have a clue ( or a solution ) how to manage this?
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