What worked for me on 14.04.3 was the grub change above. Removed the "quiet splash". That alone seemed to work.
Had tried many other things including all the lightdm restarts, etc. - none of those worked. Also went into the Displays setting and noticed it had an "internal" display and a 2nd display which was the real existing display. Turned off the "internal" display. Not sure if this had anything to do with it. -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Desktop Packages, which is subscribed to lightdm in Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1453538 Title: Invisible mouse pointer Status in Light Display Manager: Confirmed Status in lightdm package in Ubuntu: Triaged Bug description: After system boot on login screen mouse pointer is invisible. I am able to click to gadgets but its blind clicking. I dont know where is mouse pointer. When I'm switch to virtual console (CTRL+ALT+F1) and type sudo service lightdm restart command LightDM restarts and mouse pointer back to normal. ProblemType: Bug DistroRelease: Ubuntu 15.04 Package: lightdm 1.14.0-0ubuntu2 ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 3.19.0-17.17-lowlatency 3.19.6 Uname: Linux 3.19.0-17-lowlatency x86_64 ApportVersion: 2.17.2-0ubuntu1 Architecture: amd64 CurrentDesktop: Unity Date: Sun May 10 14:27:50 2015 InstallationDate: Installed on 2015-02-13 (85 days ago) InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 14.10 "Utopic Unicorn" - Release amd64 (20141022.1) LightdmConfig: [SeatDefaults] allow-guest = false SourcePackage: lightdm UpgradeStatus: Upgraded to vivid on 2015-04-25 (15 days ago) To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/lightdm/+bug/1453538/+subscriptions -- Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~desktop-packages Post to : desktop-packages@lists.launchpad.net Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~desktop-packages More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp