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I am using UltraVNC to connect from my Windows 7 x64 machine to Mac OSX running Vine Server.
The cursor I see on the Mac desktop is just a dot rather than a normal cursor. What setting have I missed that will give a familiar arrow cursor?
Dave Anderson
Posted 2010-10-15T00:51:13.710
Reputation: 215
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In VNC Viewer connection options, under mouse and keyboard settings, check the radio button for "Track remote cursor locally". It sounds like you have it set on "Don't show remote cursor".
John T
Posted 2010-10-15T00:51:13.710
Reputation: 149 037
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I want to add some insights about Windows 10 VNC viewing. If you have trouble seeing a mouse cursor on a Windows 10 machine with no mouse attached, you can enable the "mouse control using Numpad keys" feature:
This forces Windows to show a mouse cursor even with no physical mouse attached thus making your VNC life much easier. Bonus: you can actually see "Resize window" cursors on the windows edges!
dipp
Posted 2010-10-15T00:51:13.710
Reputation: 171
This worked for me, thanks so much! My VNC viewer would always use its' own standard arrow pointer, which mean I could never tell what the actual Windows 10 cursor was showing, particularly annoying when trying to resize windows! Now it shows the correct pointer :) – JoLoCo – 2018-03-26T17:56:03.963
1The second I read this it all made sense as to why I only had a dot when remoting into my server (which has no monitor, no mouse, no keyboard). So I dug around for a mouse I don't need and hooked it in the back. Problem fixed, just a different way. Thanks! – herculeesjr – 2019-03-09T15:44:16.013
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When Launching UltraVNC use the command line argument "-normalcursor" to use the windows arrow.
Example: "vncviewer.exe -normalcursor"
Adam
Posted 2010-10-15T00:51:13.710
Reputation: 51
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When using *.vnc-Files to save connections, you can edit the file and change/add the line:
localcursor=2
to show a normal local cursor for that connection.
Reinhard Gunacker
Posted 2010-10-15T00:51:13.710
Reputation: 11
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I had the same problem with UltraVNC, so I tried TightVNC. TightVNC has an option to change the local cursor shape to an arrow from the small circle/dot. I could not find that option in UltraVNC. That is the only option I changed from the defaults. Remote server was Ubuntu and the client was Windows 7 Enterprise.
Sigshooter
Posted 2010-10-15T00:51:13.710
Reputation: 11
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I too experienced a similar problem using Windows 7 and the RealVNC (R6652). However, I was able to resolve it by resetting the display of the Operating System configuration back to its original default value. Specifically, clicked control panel - display and selected the default radio button of 100%. Afterward, the cursor arrow re-appeared properly on the remote server side of the display window.
jarozzell
Posted 2010-10-15T00:51:13.710
Reputation: 1
2In version 1.1 from a Windows client to Linux server, this does not resolve the small dot cursor issue. The -normalcursor option below is a contemporary solution. – jdr5ca – 2014-04-06T19:58:21.153