Strange mouse 'X' cursor

[MR ZenWiz]

On Mon, Nov 27, 2023 at 8:41 AM Little Girl <littlergirl at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> Hey there,
>
> MR ZenWiz wrote:
> >Little Girl wrote:
>
> >> That happens when you've enabled the "Install third-party software
> >> for graphics and WiFi hardware" checkbox during installation of
> >> Ubuntu and it means that your drivers are handled for you by
> >> Ubuntu.
> >>
> >Ok, how do I turn that setting off, or somehow control what it does?
>
> It looks like you can remove them in two steps shown in the
> "Uninstalling the NVIDIA drivers" section of this page:
>
> https://ubuntu.com/server/docs/nvidia-drivers-installation
>
> Note that I haven't tried it and if you decide to do it, you'd want to
> read the rest of that page to see what your choices are for going
> forward.
>
Just for the heck of it I went back to the default mouse cursor to see
what happened.

It's a little harder for me to see, however, when I  ran Firefox and
Gimp, both of which would previously change the mouse cursor to that
blasted X, it did not change. (Interestingly, LO did not do this, nor
other apps I routinely run.)

I don't want to mess with the drivers - I used to be more adventurous,
but I'm not in that position anymore - too much critical stuff that
can't be allowed to go wrong on my desktop.

So, I'll live with the harder-to-see default mouse theme.

<sigh>

Thanks to all!

Mark