What cursors do you use on Wayland?
What cursors do you use on Wayland?
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.
Cursor is not really anything that I feel a need to customize. It's a pointer that changes shape according to context, and the default implementations usually do it at least decently.
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.
I have some problems with X11 cursors and that's quite normal with Wayland obviously
It's not. There is no Wayland specific cursor format, it's all just images on disk, and the most widely used format hasn't changed away from Xcursors yet.
For example, my cursor can become invisible if my screen sleeps
That's either a compositor or driver bug, please report it (as I've never seen that on Plasma, to your compositor first).
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.
That's because it moves the X11 pointer but not the real one. A cursor theme can't change that.
I see. So nothing really changed? I was starting to think that it might be related to permissions in Wayland, apparently not.
That’s either a compositor or driver bug, please report it (as I’ve never seen that on Plasma, to your compositor first).
Hmm, in that case it could be a Hyprland issue. I would say wlroots but they stopped using wlroots and I switched to River recently. Haven't happened on River yet but it's been only a week so I cannot say for now.
That’s because it moves the X11 pointer but not the real one. A cursor theme can’t change that.
The real one? It was fine on Xorg though. I tried to put my user into input group, thinking could be related to a permission issue but it didn't change anything.
The real one? It was fine on Xorg though
When an app (in your case, Steam) uses X11 APIs to move the cursor, that of course works on Xorg, but Xwayland merely emulates it - so it moves the X11 pointer for X11 apps, but not the pointer from the Wayland compositor.
Some compositors allow Xwayland to request moving the real pointer instead of doing emulation, but River apparently doesn't.
I like the catppuccin cursors (along with the rest of catppuccin) https://github.com/catppuccin/cursors
I installed the Mocha pack and it seems fine so far. Thanks.
Bibata Modern: https://github.com/ful1e5/Bibata_Cursor
Adwaita cursor is the only good cursor.
Breeze. The best.
i use banana cursor because bananas are healthy
I use Bibata however I don't really have a strong preference for any specific one.
Going to return to this thread a bit later, just to see if other people link something interesting
I use posy but I'm watching this issue like a hawk before I recommend it https://github.com/simtrami/posy-improved-cursor-linux/issues/13
I love the vimix cursors
i use nordzy-hyprcursor via the hyprcursor application
Idk. Just default one?
I don’t know if these are wayland cursors or not, but I’m using Polarnight
They are Xcursor, same as Breeze-hacked. Honestly only native Wayland cursor I know of is Hyprcursor, but that only works with Hyprland it seems.