Agreed, I get the same. When you lock the screen and use that "switch user" button you can indeed relogin with a different user and the mouse works.
Unfortunately, in that case the screen stays blank on the second login. -- Synaptics touchpad not enabled for second X display https://launchpad.net/bugs/68370 -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs