I can reproduce this behaviour with gedit or the terminal but not with apport or update-manager when they popup. I think it's a desired behaviour of a gnome component, moving there for further triaging.
** Package changed: xorg (Ubuntu) => gnome-common (Ubuntu) ** Changed in: gnome-common (Ubuntu) Status: New => Confirmed ** Summary changed: - Mouse dissapearing + Mouse pointer dissapearing, and reappears on mouse move -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu-X, which is subscribed to xorg in Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/799537 Title: Mouse pointer dissapearing, and reappears on mouse move To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/gnome-common/+bug/799537/+subscriptions _______________________________________________ Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~ubuntu-x-swat Post to : ubuntu-x-swat@lists.launchpad.net Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~ubuntu-x-swat More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp