I have nearly the same problem. I have recently upgraded to 13.10 and
the invisible-mouse-cursor problem immediately affected me. Basically, I
have the following:

 - I have no visible cursor inside LightDM during login
 - I have no visible cursor inside the Lubuntu session of LXDE. Although I can 
click and perform all mouse activities.
 - For a brief moment, after successful login between the Lightdm and LXDE 
session, I can see the X server's default mouse cursor. But it disappears as 
soon as LXDE is started.

I found a rather dumb way of fixing the problem and I have no clue why
it worked.

1. Created a new user called 'dummy'
2. Logged out from my default user session (where the mouse cursor is 
invisible). Alternatively you could do 'sudo service restart lightdm' if 
clicking the right button becomes tedious due to the "invisible" cursor
3. From LightDM, logged in as 'dummy' - great, mouse cursor is visible here.
4. Logged out from 'dummy' user session
5. From LightDM, Logged in as the default user - voila! mouse cursor is back!

Other tricks that I had tried:

 - sudo update-alternatives --display x-cursor-theme ## make sure it is set to 
a theme that you have installed on your machine
 - Check ~/.config/lxsession/Lubuntu or ~/.config/lxsession/LXDE to make sure 
it matches what you have set above

Hope it helps.

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Title:
  Inconsistent cursor visibility with cursor plugin enabled

Status in “gnome-settings-daemon” package in Ubuntu:
  Confirmed

Bug description:
  On fresh boots the greeter & desktop may have the cursor visible or may not 
until mouse is moved.
  On a log out/in the cursor is almost always invisible until mouse is moved. 
(unless made visible in greeter screen, then visible on Desktop

  This is all  well & good, maybe some intentional aesthetics/design 
(https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=687791) , however sometimes the 
cursor never becomes visible.
  In that case hitting some keys or context menu can cause it to show, though 
most times a log out is needed.
  (with the removal of ctrl+alt+delete > log out this means most users will 
need to either blindly find the session indicator or hit power button.

  When the g-s-d cursor plugin is disabled then the cursor is always
  visible, it the plugin has no use in an ubuntu session then maybe it
  should be default disabled

  There is also the possibility, particularly on ssd drives,  of a login
  with no session indicator. This occasionally  combines with no visible
  cursor.

  ProblemType: Bug
  DistroRelease: Ubuntu 13.10
  Package: gnome-settings-daemon 3.8.5-0ubuntu7
  ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 3.11.0-12.18-generic 3.11.3
  Uname: Linux 3.11.0-12-generic x86_64
  ApportVersion: 2.12.5-0ubuntu1
  Architecture: amd64
  Date: Fri Oct 11 00:38:16 2013
  InstallationDate: Installed on 2013-10-03 (8 days ago)
  InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 13.10 "Saucy Salamander" - Beta amd64 (20131002)
  MarkForUpload: True
  SourcePackage: gnome-settings-daemon
  UpgradeStatus: No upgrade log present (probably fresh install)

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