this bug is very related to #505149. In short, we ship a patch to mplayer that disables the screensaver by moving the mouse a bit every few seconds. This patch (not upstream of course) is causing this side effect.
** Changed in: mplayer (Ubuntu) Importance: Undecided => Medium ** Changed in: mplayer (Ubuntu) Status: Confirmed => Triaged -- A mouse pointer keeps reappearing during video playback in smplayer https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/455073 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs