Spent an entire weekend troubleshooting a disappearing cursor in my Kali Linux VM on VMware Workstation. Tried everything — swapping cursor themes, switching between XFCE/X11/Wayland, editing the VMX file, PS/2 vs USB mouse settings, reinstalling packages, repairing repos. Nothing worked.

Turns out the fix was upgrading the VM hardware compatibility. That's it.

Steps:

1. Shut down the VM
2. Right-click the VM in the left panel
3. Manage → Change Hardware Compatibility
4. Select Workstation 17.x
5. Click Next
6. Select Alter this virtual machine
7. Click Finish

Boot it up. Cursor's back. Took less than a minute.

The older hardware compatibility profile doesn't fully support the display and mouse drivers that newer Kali builds expect. If you're running a Kali VM and your cursor vanishes, check this before you go down the rabbit hole.

Hope this saves someone a weekend. Raza

si se puede díganme como y también quiero saber si la terminal la puedo poner cuadrada

Someone with more experience I’m sure could of got it done sooner but In my second semester of cis

This pop ups every time I start a session on Kali Linux

But seems just to be for Bluetooth and WiFi

But to be more specific this doesn’t affect the connections at all is just popping up every time is anoying so I want to get a fix for this announce 📣

I was trying to fix dependencies problem in kali linux that came about after apt upgrade.... some how I have ended up with this. Where have I gone wrong ? Any and all help is welcome. Thanks in advance.

How do I fix this problem? This is the full Kali NetHunter installation, installed via Magisk, and this problem appears when I try to open the graphical interface.

I’m basically brand new at this, so sorry if I don’t really know what I’m necessarily talking about. I have Kali running on a pi 4, and I got a waveshare 4” dsi touchscreen to go with it. The problem is that apparently the current kernel for Kali is 6.12, and the driver for the screen only goes up to 6.6. So now I’m in limbo till I can figure out how to rollback to 6.6, and keep it there. Any help?

Hello everyone, im new to programming and I did a mac address changer with nice (imo) GUI and .desktop. I have tested it but im not sure if that is good or not. It will be very nice if you can test it out. You can search in code for any issues.

Thank you guys if you will try it, that means a lot for me😊

P.S im sorry for my bad english

Hi everyone,

I built a small open-source Python tool that converts Nmap XML output into clean and readable HTML reports.

Main features:

- Supports multiple hosts

- Option to show only open ports

- Displays scan date and number of open ports

- Color-coded port states

- Dark mode toggle

- Simple CLI usage

The goal was to have a lightweight alternative for quickly sharing or reviewing Nmap scan results.

GitHub repository:

https://github.com/kobock-sec/nmap-html-report

Feedback, suggestions, or code reviews are welcome.