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What I've found that seems to help with this issue is unchecking "Enable pointer shadow" in the mouse properties on the Windows Server 2012 box. So far this seems to be working for me. This hint should also work for RDP sessions with Windows 8.

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+1 thanks (disable shadow) !

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I am having the exact same issue. Since we are moving to all 2012 servers, I'm afraid I have to let CoRD go for the moment.

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@chadius616 thank you for advice! it did the trick!

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I had the exact same problem on all of our 2012 servers- @chadius616 's tip worked for me too! :) Yippee!

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Thanks, @chadius616! This was quite annoying.

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@chadius616 Is that per connection or on the main server console.

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@jacosmitza It iss win user appearance settings. So yeah, per connection.

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A lot of changes to cursor handling happened in the more recent versions of the RDP spec, and CoRD is still using the crappy, ancient, rdesktop reverse engineered approach, rather than a to-spec version. Doing anything to disable any new shininess on the later versions of Server will probably improve CoRD performance and reliability considerably. Hopefully at some point a move to freerdp will take hold and we can stop worrying about this kind of crap (since they deal with it all properly and to-spec).

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I see similar problems with WS2008R2 i.e. the arrow disappears until you click somewhere (and hope it doesn't cause harm!).
What is the status with the move to FreeRDP? It seems to be an _awfully_ long time coming...

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Thanks for the shadow suggestion, I was getting mad with this issue.

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Woohoo! Disabling the pointer shadow worked for me as well.

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I have the same issue. Is there a work around?

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Yes, disable cursor shadow in the os options (windows).

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Awesome...works a treat. Thank you.

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Splendid! Yes, of course, why didn't I think to "disable the mouse shadow" on the remote OS? Thank you kindly...

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Another microsoft "feature" to take up more resources. Who would have ever thought to switch that off

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On 21 Jan 2014, at 4:55, "jadik" [email protected] wrote:

Splendid! Yes, of course, why didn't I think to "disable the mouse shadow" on the remote OS? Thank you kindly...

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Thanks!!! Exactly what I needed. I am playing with rdesktop on a pi and had this exact problem. @chadius616, you ROCK!

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Disabling the pointer shadow worked great for me, thanks @chadius616 . Hope CoRD can get this resolved long term, I find it much more preferable to the RDC client at the moment.

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Disabling pointer shadow on host machine worked for me too!

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Just chiming in to say the same issue here and the workaround of disabling the mouse pointer shadow worked for me too.

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+1 for disabling shadow.

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+1 for disabling shadow. Thank you

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FYI, as mentioned on the project page, Microsoft's official remote desktop client is a good alternative at this point.

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The best I could do in this situation, was to go [ ON THE GUEST MACHINE ] into the Change your Mouse Settings -> Additional Mouse Settings -> Pointers -> and set the scheme to Windows Black (Extra Large) (System Scheme).
This at least leaves a very visible vertical "I" bar when hovering over the places that the cursor normally disappears.

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nice, thanks @chadius616

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