Comment 10 for bug 227907

I just tested this on a Jaunty live CD, and animated cursors are still disappearing after activating zoom with the GConf key /apps/compiz/plugins/ezoom/screen0/options/hide_original_mouse set to true. bgruber, are you sure you turned hide_original_mouse on when you tested it?

It looks like this bug has been reported upstream. There's also a "naive" patch there which seems to fix things, but I don't know enough about the X.Org internals to know whether it's a good long-term patch.