 Okay, so there you are working at a computer with no GUI interface whether it's a Server that you hooked up a monitor to or you switch to one of your tty's by pressing control shift F control Alt Alt shift To This is one of those things I do without thinking as soon as I think of it I can't remember what the keys are Control Alt and F2 control F3 control F4 control Alt F5 control F6 Okay, I'm sure most of you are aware of that control Alt and your F keys will allow you to switch between virtual consoles Exiting out of your GUI interface and into a pure console experience to get back to your GUI desktop environment Usually it's F1 or F7 But once you're in this you're running, you know again without a GUI interface for whatever reason you're doing this Wouldn't it be nice? To have a mouse cursor good news You can and it's not that hard to do before I go any further I know a lot of you out there going but Chris why well? I tell you the main reason that I have this service installed is copying and pasting sometimes I am working at one of my virtual consoles and I output some information and said you know typing whether it's a URL or an IP address Something it's just easier to highlight and paste it and that's the main reason I have this installed But there may be other reasons the service that allows this is called GPM and on a Debian based system It's super easy to install to pseudo apt install GPM Obviously you type in your password once it's installed It should automatically start that service up and you now have a mouse cursor that can highlight And with a center mouse click it will paste whatever you highlighted now again I should have do this on Debian based system using after you can use whatever package manager You normally use and I'm sure it's just a simple on most other distributions although I haven't tried but again Debian Debian based systems So if you're on Debian Ubuntu Linux Mint MX Linux a lot of distros that would be how you do it and once it's up and running once it's installed should automatically start running if not just start the GPM service and now you have yourself a mouse cursor again It's not something that is used all the time, but does come in handy when you need it. So short video I hope you found it useful, and I hope that you have a great day. Please visit films by chris comm That's Chris the K link in the description also not something I normally do But I should start doing is thanking my patreon supporters, so go ahead and check them out their names I appreciate your support as always. I hope that you have a great day