Linux – mouse pointer will not hide, unless moved

Hi,

just today I upgraded one of my Fedora boxes to FC25 x86_64, and Kodi 17 beta 17 (out of RPMFusion).
RPMFusion calls this kodi-17.0-0.10 – 2016-12-19, beta 7.

When the system boots (using gdm as manager) the mouse pointer is seen, and will not disappear,
unless I first move the mouse. Once the pointer is moved, it goes away, as it should.

versions:

gdm-3.22.1-1.fc25.x86_64
xorg-x11-server-common-1.19.0-2.fc25.x86_64
xorg-x11-drv-synaptics-1.9.0-1.fc25.x86_64
xorg-x11-server-utils-7.7-20.fc25.x86_64
xorg-x11-font-utils-7.5-32.fc25.x86_64
xorg-x11-drv-wacom-0.34.0-1.fc25.x86_64
xorg-x11-server-Xwayland-1.19.0-2.fc25.x86_64
xorg-x11-xbitmaps-1.1.1-9.fc24.noarch
xorg-x11-server-Xvfb-1.19.0-2.fc25.x86_64
xorg-x11-drv-qxl-0.1.4-10.20160929gite13d28ee.fc25.x86_64
xorg-x11-xinit-1.3.4-13.fc25.x86_64
xorg-x11-utils-7.5-21.fc24.x86_64
xorg-x11-apps-7.7-15.fc24.x86_64
xorg-x11-drv-openchrome-0.5.0-2.fc25.x86_64
xorg-x11-drv-vmware-13.0.2-12.20150211git8f0cf7c.fc25.x86_64
xorg-x11-xkb-utils-7.7-17.fc24.x86_64
xorg-x11-drv-fbdev-0.4.3-25.fc25.x86_64
xorg-x11-drv-ati-7.7.1-1.20160928git3fc839ff.fc25.x86_64
xorg-x11-drv-nouveau-1.0.13-1.fc25.x86_64
xorg-x11-xauth-1.0.9-5.fc24.x86_64
xorg-x11-fonts-misc-7.5-16.fc24.noarch
xorg-x11-drv-intel-2.99.917-26.20160929.fc25.x86_64
xorg-x11-drv-vesa-2.3.2-25.fc25.x86_64
xorg-x11-server-Xorg-1.19.0-2.fc25.x86_64
xorg-x11-drv-evdev-2.10.4-1.fc25.x86_64

kernel is 4.8.15-300.fc25.x86_64

easiest solution would probably be to run xorg with -nocursor, but passing params on to xorg,
isn’t, AFAIK, supported by gdm Sad