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How do I stop VLC Media Player from hiding my mouse cursor? VLC hides my mouse cursor whenever I put my cursor over the video. It's very annoying.

I am using Xubuntu 16.04 64-bit and VLC Media Player 2.2.2 from the repos.

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In Advanced Preferences -> Video you'll see the entry to control this:-

VLC Advanced Preferences

Hide cursor and fullscreen controller after x milliseconds can be set to any large value longer than any video. Of course you'll retain the controller, but that comes with the setting.

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    It's at the bottom of the screen: select All under Show settings.
    – AFH
    Commented May 14, 2017 at 11:15
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    Still hides the cursor in non-fullscreen videos (Ubuntu 16.04.2, VLC 2.2.2), where it is even more annoying. In fullscreen I'd actually expect it to hide, but not in window mode.
    – Zelphir Kaltstahl
    Commented Jul 10, 2017 at 22:28
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    Actually there is a bug for the thing I was talking about: bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/vlc/+bug/1601981
    – Zelphir Kaltstahl
    Commented Jul 10, 2017 at 22:34
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    @Zelphir - Thanks for the link: useful information. Not sure what you can do about it, apart from running an earlier version until a fix is released.
    – AFH
    Commented Jul 11, 2017 at 10:54
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    The workaround (setting timeout to the higher value) worked for me only after restarting vlc.
    – Ashark
    Commented Feb 6, 2022 at 15:30
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The mouse also disappears in Windows if you have Tools | Preferences | Interface Settings | Video set to output: OpenGL video output. You need to set that to OpenGL video output for Windows

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