Symptoms
- When killing gnome-settings-daemon with the terminal command
killall gnome-settings-daemon, your mouse appears. - When running gnome-settings-daemon again, your mouse will disappear!
Solution
Open dconf-editor and navigate to: org/gnome/settings-daemon/plugins/cursor and set 'active' to false (un-ticked).
Credit
Credit for this solution goes to a fellow Arch Linux user 'Wey'. You can see his comment here
