{"id":682,"date":"2020-09-21T10:31:00","date_gmt":"2020-09-21T10:31:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/xolowebsites.com\/elementor\/demo-1\/?p=682"},"modified":"2021-06-14T01:48:19","modified_gmt":"2021-06-14T01:48:19","slug":"changing-desktop-environment-on-linux-or-laggy-mouse-cursor","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/teza.blog\/index.php\/2020\/09\/21\/changing-desktop-environment-on-linux-or-laggy-mouse-cursor\/","title":{"rendered":"Changing Desktop Environment on Linux or Laggy mouse cursor"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

It occurs to me that I had a very sluggish performance with Kali install on Hyper-V. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

I have assigned plenty of CPU and memory for this particular VM but when I ran it, the mouse cursor seems to be a bit too laggy. <\/p>\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n

One likely reason is that installation location is in external M-2 drive.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

But then again, I have many other VMs running from this external VM. Only this particular Kali linux seems to be having the issue. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

I tried different methods which I could find online. I tried maginfier, updates, screen resolution, increasing RAM, Linux Integration Service, just to name a few.

None of those methods took away the laggy mouse cursor issue. Well at least completely.

Eventually, I tried to change the desktop environment.
Kali has its own default desktop environment XFCE.

I tried to change back to GNOME desktop and the sluggy cursor issue seems to get resolved. I swapped between these two desktop environments and I feel like GNOME is much more responsive so Im currently sticking with that.

May be if you have been having the same issue, you can give it a world.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

From Terminal, launch Tasksel

$ sudo tasksel

and select gnome, move your up down arrow keys and space bar to select. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Log out and log back in. And select the desktop enviroment on the login screen. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Hope that fixes for you.

Cheers<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Teza<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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