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I installed Ubuntu 13.10 (I had 13.04 before, but I made clean install) and as soon as I play video in VLC my mouse pointer disappears... then I can get it back only when I turn off and then turn on my touchpad with function key on keyboard. After a second or two it disappears again... Then when I turn off VLC it's working fine again... When I use other video player (like Totem) it doesn't happen... Only with VLC...

It's asus vivobook, with nvidia optimus card on bumblebee (nvidia-304) and it has got a touch screen(which is finally working in 13.10) I did not have this problem with any other ubuntu or any other distro...

Any ideas...???

Thanks...

Daniel
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Daniel's answer contained the vital clue. I had the same issue. You can install latest version using an additional repository. You can google on below instructions. Note there are 2 such repositories "stable daily" which at time of writing contains the 2.0.9 version (still has mouse disappearing act) and the "master daily" (with currently version 2.2.0 which solves the bug)

sudo add-apt-repository ppa:videolan/master-daily
sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get install vlc
user207838
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It was resolved with vlc 2.1.1 update... It's not in Ubuntu 13.10 sources... need to install from downloaded sources or custom PPA...

Daniel
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