Mouse cursor disappearing after running gnome-settings-daemon in OpenBox

After further investigation, this post in the Arch forums revealed the answer. I used dconf-editor to navigate to org/gnome/settings-daemon/plugins/cursor and unticked the active setting. gnome-settings-daemon is behaving perfectly well now.

Correction to IlMostro_7: It should be dconf write /org/gnome/settings/daemon/plugins/cursor/active false