Hi, I’m having a weird problem with my mouse cursor over text. Very often but not really reproducible, it just isn’t visible. I have to move the mouse around a bit, move it over other elements or out of the window, and mostly it appears again. It also frequently disappears very briefly. I’m not sure what causes this.
I’m on Windows 11 and have tried with both the version 1.7.7 and 1.8.0 preview, and I am running the default team. I have tried disabling the CSS snippets and turning on the restricted mode but without change. I have also copied my files into a new folder without the obsidian files and imported as new. There it seems a bit better, although the cursor still seems not to be fully visible at all times.
I’m not sure how I can really fix this, or if it is caused by something on my side or some kind of bug in obsidian. Any assistance is appreciated!
Similar to the “copy” vault. It doesn’t seem to vanish completely or as often, but still does. For instance, on scrolling, the whole mouse pointer disappears for half a second and then re-appears. This is not only the text cursor but also the regular pointer, which is something I didn’t notice before. What’s weird is I tried to record a video using the windows snipping tool but in there the recording, the cursor looks completely normal. I also tried this with my regular vault with the same result. For me, the cursor vanishes, but it’s visible in the video.
I meant what I described earlier in the original post. I copied only my markdown files into a new folder without obsidian settings / plugins. Sorry for the confusion.
In the sandbox the mouse cursor also disappears sometimes, for instance when I scroll it vanishes until the scroll process is finished.
It seems as if the problem vanishes when I deactivate hardware acceleration. I am using Windows 11 on an ASUS Zenbook 14. It uses an Intel Core Ultra 7 155H processor with an onboard Intel Arc Graphics Card. The drivers are up-to-date.
Does this make it a bug? Is there anything I can do apart from keeping HW acceleration disabled or buying a new computer?
Actually, a different driver didn’t fix it after all. I use Obsidian on a laptop (see above) with an attached second monitor. Obsidian with HW acceleration works fine when the laptop is open and the internal screen is opened but doesn’t with only the secondary external monitor running. Weird. I’m not sure what I can do to resolve this except disabling HW acceleration.
I am experiencing the same problem. It only occurs when Hardware Acceleration is turned on. It’s difficult to capture a video/screen snip as Windows doesn’t capture the mouse with its screen snip tool.
I have tested in sandbox vault.
Obsidian version: v1.8.9
Installer version: v1.8.4
Operating system: Windows 11 Home 10.0.26120
Login status: logged in
Language: en
Catalyst license: supporter
Insider build toggle: on
Live preview: on
Base theme: adapt to system
Community theme: none
Snippets enabled: 0
Restricted mode: on
RECOMMENDATIONS:
none
This problem does not occur in other text editing programs such as Microsoft Word, Notepad, Notepad++.
Unlike @yngwi I have an AMD processor (AMD Ryzen 9 6900HS with Radeon Graphics 3.30 GHz), so this doesn’t appear to be a processor-specific problelm.
I have the same issue.
Mouse cursor was vanishing when I scroll up or down with the middle mouse wheel. Made it very had to navigate.
It still happened in Sandbox Vault.
Turning off hardware acceleration fixes it.
Seems like a bug, but it doesn’t bother me any more, since I don’t have a GPU, so don’t need hardware acceleration anyway.
. I just asked asked what is happening the sandbox vault.