diff --git a/src/workspaces/officerdev/src/apps/Desktop/DesktopView.tsx b/src/workspaces/officerdev/src/apps/Desktop/DesktopView.tsx
index bcc6e906..91eea6ea 100644
--- a/src/workspaces/officerdev/src/apps/Desktop/DesktopView.tsx
+++ b/src/workspaces/officerdev/src/apps/Desktop/DesktopView.tsx
@@ -27,6 +27,7 @@ const buildWsUrl = () => {
 type RFBInstance = {
   resizeSession: boolean;
   scaleViewport: boolean;
+  showDotCursor: boolean;
   focusOnClick: boolean;
   disconnect: () => void;
   sendCredentials: (creds: { password: string }) => void;
@@ -148,6 +149,13 @@ export const DesktopView = ({ className, style }: DesktopViewProps) => {
       rfb.resizeSession = true;
       rfb.scaleViewport = false;
       rfb.focusOnClick = true;
+      // noVNC hides the browser's own cursor over the canvas and draws the REMOTE cursor in its place.
+      // Until the server sends a cursor shape its image is RFB.cursors.none — so nothing is drawn, the
+      // real cursor is hidden, and the pointer becomes invisible. Pointer coordinates are unaffected
+      // (measured: x 5..1108, y 11..714 against a 1109x715 session — a perfect 1:1 map), which is why
+      // this looked like a desync when it was only ever a visibility problem: the clicks were landing
+      // correctly all along. A dot is better than nothing when the server has not supplied a shape.
+      rfb.showDotCursor = true;
       rfbRef.current = rfb;
 
       rfb.addEventListener('connect', () => {