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Turn off mouse cursor

For some reason, the mouse cursor in Eclipse disappears.

I see that I can go to the next line, and it shows me with the usual color changes, but the cursor itself does not appear. When I started eclipse, I see the cursor, but as soon as the initialization is complete, the cursor is hidden again.

The same thing happened when I switched from Eclipse Indigo to Juno and other versions. I do not know what to do.

Any pointers to what might be wrong?

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Anuj, try eliminating one of the following common suspects:

  • Go to the new workspace and check if the problem appears.

    • If it does not appear again, you are dealing with a damaged workspace. How much would be lost if you started with a new workspace?
    • If so, then this is probably an Eclipse plugin. The next logical step will be a new installation of Eclipse (I would recommend Eclipse Indigo for Java Devs, downloaded from here )

  • If the problem persists with the new Eclipse + workspace, then we need to expand our hunt and include OS / JDK problems. And while we're talking about it, which version of the OS, JDK, and Eclipse are you using?

Backing up your "working" Eclipse configuration

Once the problem is fixed (for example, when installing Fresh Eclipse), I highly recommend backing up the following files:

  • Eclipse installation directory (so you install all the plugins)
  • Workspace directory.

These are ways to restore a working version of your installation with minimal effort.

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