If you have just installed Fedora (or any other distro which uses xorg) you may have encounter the problem by which your cursor works, but you just can’t see i: that is you have no cursor. The solution is fairly simple.

Open for editing the xorg config file as root. It is usually located at /etc/X11/xorg.conf . Locate the device section of the configuration file.

Add the following entry into the device section (on its own line):

Option “SWcursor” “True”

Restart the computer (or just xorg). Your problem should now be gone.