Cursor invisible

I'm in the process of setting up ArchLinux on my new laptop, an ASUS A6Km. But I've got a rather strange problem.
After I installed slim (Simple Login Manager) to boot in init 5, my cursor disappears. I can still use it, I just can't see it.
But it's visable in urxvt and opera (which uses qt) but not in any gtk-apps, the rootwindow or any windowframe.
I'm using Xorg7, my wm is WindowLabs.
I havn't any clue what's wrong, anyone have any clue?

This happened to me as well, several weeks, maybe even months ago. In my case, it seemed to coincide with installing cinnamon. Is cinnamon something you installed recently, by any chance? At any rate, I ended up having issues in cinnamon as well, and I wonder if running both DE's side-by-side potentially causes issues. For instance, I noticed that some settings in tweak-tool in gnome carried over to cinnamon. They share a lot of core apps and maybe it has something to do with config files...?? I eventually just made a list of apps I wanted to keep and did a fresh install using my existing home partition and deleted any config files I didn't want. I really needed to do that anyway. I now have KDE and Gnome. KDE is as buggy is ever, but gnome does seem to be behaving itself this time around. Sorry I don't have any better suggestions.
Last edited by nicklej (2013-10-02 12:33:50)

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[2013-09-30 17:10] [PACMAN] upgraded glib2 (2.36.4-1 -> 2.38.0-1)
[2013-09-30 17:10] [PACMAN] upgraded at-spi2-core (2.8.0-1 -> 2.10.0-1)
[2013-09-30 17:10] [PACMAN] upgraded atk (2.8.0-1 -> 2.10.0-1)
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This happened to me as well, several weeks, maybe even months ago. In my case, it seemed to coincide with installing cinnamon. Is cinnamon something you installed recently, by any chance? At any rate, I ended up having issues in cinnamon as well, and I wonder if running both DE's side-by-side potentially causes issues. For instance, I noticed that some settings in tweak-tool in gnome carried over to cinnamon. They share a lot of core apps and maybe it has something to do with config files...?? I eventually just made a list of apps I wanted to keep and did a fresh install using my existing home partition and deleted any config files I didn't want. I really needed to do that anyway. I now have KDE and Gnome. KDE is as buggy is ever, but gnome does seem to be behaving itself this time around. Sorry I don't have any better suggestions.
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