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What cursors do you use on Wayland? (programming.dev)

submitted 2 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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I like my Breeze-hacked cursor but I think it's time to find a native Wayland replacement.

I have some problems with X11 cursors and that's quite normal with Wayland obviously. For example, my cursor can become invisible if my screen sleeps. Additional controllers that control mouse cursor don't control X11 cursor, however they still work, I just don't know where the cursor is unless it highlights something. Things like this.

It's becoming kinda inconvenient so I'm asking for a replacement. Currently I don't really care how it looks.

I'm on River by the way.

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[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Sure, but my post isn't about customizing really. It's about Xorg vs Wayland cursors, which I don't know any Wayland cursor I can use.

[–] [email protected] 12 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Is the normal Breeze cursor not an option?

I'm also not quite sure what you mean with "Wayland cursor", but I'm using the default Breeze cursor under Wayland without problems...

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 months ago (1 children)

I haven't tried it but I can try. Recently I learned about Hyprcursor in a post which was saying native Wayland cursor. However I couldn't really find anything about native Wayland cursors so I asked here.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Hmm, I read that the KDE devs changed the Breeze cursor to use SVG files, which allows scaling it for the shake-cursor-feature of Plasma 6.1. That feature's only available on Wayland, but yeah, no idea if this really couldn't be done on X11...

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 months ago

Apparently those cursors can be used on both Xorg and Wayland with their respective specs, and they are even located at ~/.icons or /usr/share/icons. Maybe this is some kind of a transition stage. However hyprcursor isn't located there.