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crosshair on cursor

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Clash Royale CLAN TAG #URR8PPP up vote 1 down vote favorite 1 In the past I've used a handy utility on Windows called "CrossHair" - it brings up a crosshair over the whole screen, centered on the cursor location -see a screenshot here - http://www.cohjs.org/CrossHair.jpg.html I downloaded it years ago, and today it's only available on archive.org. I installed it on Wine, and it works partially but very clunky - only when the configuration window is open + active, roving version only when you continuously hold down the hotkey, and it flickers. Anybody familiar with something like this that'd work in Lubuntu? Nothing from a search on Synaptic or the web. This page https://wiki.gnome.org/Projects/GnomeShell/Magnification#Implemented_Features appears to describe something promising but I'm relatively new to Lubuntu, and I have not found Gnomemag in Synaptic or in my installation. Appreciate any suggestions. lubuntu cursor share | improve this...

What configuration files in Ubuntu control the graphics drivers in a dual GPU system?

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Clash Royale CLAN TAG #URR8PPP up vote 4 down vote favorite 1 I'm trying to get an NVIDIA 970M GPU working after something went wrong with the drivers. I've tried purging and manually wiping the system of everything nvidia/cuda related and reinstalled both from the ppa:graphics-drivers/ppa and from the NVIDIA installer. Both approaches fail to get the system to use the NVIDIA GPU (as evidenced by nvidia-prime which I use to switch to the NVIDIA GPU, but after reboot it always returns to the onboard intel GPU). What I'm trying to understand now is exactly what configuration in ubuntu is used to configure which graphics drivers are actually loaded? How do I actually query the kernel to understand what drivers it thinks are available, and which drivers it is using? Are there logs other than dmesg (with show nothing special) that I should be looking at to debug this? > sudo lshw -C display *-display UNCLAIMED description: 3D controller product: GM204M [GeFor...