Mouse pointer freezing at left edge of screen in 16.10

Solution 1:

I was experiencing some problems with my pointer as well. In my case, the pointer is there, but is not working properly, since it needs to be not on the link/folder/file... but above it.

It the past, trying to look for info about this issue, I discovered that many other users upgrading to ubuntu 16.10, started to experience an issue with the mouse pointer disappearing, which also happened to me sometimes.

I read in this Ubuntu Forums post that resetting unity settings would help

Install unity-tweak-tool

sudo apt-get install unity-tweak-tool

Then do a reset via:

unity-tweak-tool --reset-unity

It worked for me, and my pointer stopped disappearing.