Windows cursor sometimes becomes invisible in VS Code

[ntysdd]

Hi VS Code team,

On Windows, I often run into a problem where the mouse cursor becomes hard to see or even appears invisible inside VS Code.

At the moment, the common workaround seems to be manually changing the Windows mouse cursor color or style. However, that is not ideal, because it means changing the system-wide appearance just to make one application usable.

It would be great if VS Code could offer a built-in way to improve cursor visibility on Windows, such as:

• a VS Code-specific cursor visibility setting

• better adaptation to Windows cursor themes

• a fallback cursor style when the current one is too hard to see

This would make the editor much more comfortable to use on Windows without forcing users to change the whole OS cursor setup.

Thanks for considering it.

[connor4312]

/gifPlease

[vs-code-engineering]

Thanks for reporting this issue! Unfortunately, it's hard for us to understand what issue you're seeing. Please help us out by providing a screen recording showing exactly what isn't working as expected. While we can work with most standard formats, .gif files are preferred as they are displayed inline on GitHub. You may find https://gifcap.dev helpful as a browser-based gif recording tool.

If the issue depends on keyboard input, you can help us by enabling screencast mode for the recording (Developer: Toggle Screencast Mode in the command palette). Lastly, please attach this file via the GitHub web interface as emailed responses will strip files out from the issue.

Happy coding!

[ntysdd]

I don't have time to generate a GIF for this issue at the moment. For reference, this appears to be the same issue described in Issue #217357, including the observation that the cursor behaves differently when using screen recording tools. It also seems related to the underlying Chromium bug chromium#40239916.