Comment 19 for bug 971018

i can confirm the problems reported above on Ubuntu 13.10 for x86_64 with roughly the latest updates via the apt repositorys. its running in virtual box 4.3.2 on a Windows 8.1 host. (telling the host to run it was a bios activation of VMs, the selection of Ubuntu _64_ in the box profile and enabling of some more advanced features of the box.)

there are two cases i observed on my own:
1) when running in virtual box with 3D enabled and the mouse integration on then the side-bar never will open on a mouse gesture.
2) when running the same with integration off it works but the mouse pointer has vanished.

these are probably two distinct problems rendering either option as not really useable.
for my impression case #1 is the more important one as thats the standard way most people will run the box, even if #2 as well is a definite major issue for operating the GUI.

_both_ issues shall be fixed!
the first might need an option (or automatism = tri states for the option) for changing the side bar opening meachnism behaviour.
the second i just dont know as i have no clue for what makes the mouse pointer disappear.

BTW - how is auto-hide as an option itsel controlled? cant find it in the settings. (settings are so slim that i had to install and run gnome tweaks to at least beeing able to change font sizes to fit them to my screen dimensions...) but i would need it to work-around and test a bit more.

PS: no idea how a "4-finger swipe" is defined. Using a simple mouse style laptop touch pad for years and only having activated vertical scroller for it since then. no having that available does again stopping me from testing the mentioned work around. (i tend to not likeing finger acrobatics as the touch here is quite limited in size.)