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Using the 0.44 x64 build on my gentoo system, built from source.

Last weekend i did a standard system update, just a few packages, everything went smooth.

Yesterday when i started openmw, i saw, that the mouse cursor became invisible.
I can navigate trough the menus but i can't see the cursor.

Tried the following things:
- rebuild and even downgrade mesa
- rebuild openmw
- rebuild libsdl2

other things work normally, but the strangest thing is that i suspesct the problem is because of the update of system packages BUT in the meantime openmw was NOT rebuilt.
looked over the log file and everything seemed normal.
it's not a mod/plugin problem either and nothing was changed in the config file for the game.

update:
weird thing is, that if i apply this mod: https://www.nexusmods.com/morrowind/mod ... escription
the Arena cursor shows up
i copied the esm and bsa files over again thinking it's a corruption, but the cursor still does not show up

How are you installing mods? I recently had trouble with 'missing' files (including the cursor) after some mod upgrades, and it turns out that a bsa wasn't registered and that short circuited even unrelated things before (somehow).

i just copied files over into the data folder, when installed any mod.

before the bug happening, i did absolutely no modification to the game installation, no mod/texture/mesh/plugin was installed or removed.
i played the game for a long time until this, just finished the tribunal quest after finishing the main quest.

what is even stranger, that i found an old tool, called bsaextract, used wine to extract all files from the bsa file into a temporary directory, then copy the 4 cursor files over.
it still did not work.
then i renamed them with case-sensitivity to look like then files from the arena cursor package and it still does not work.
yet when i copied the arena cursor mod, it works instantly.