"Support the cursor-shape protocol" merged in GTK (gitlab.gnome.org)

submitted 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) by that_leaflet@lemmy.world to c/gnome@discuss.tchncs.de

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This protocol lets Wayland client to ask the compositor to draw the cursor rather than the Wayland client drawing the cursor itself.

Seems like Mutter merged this support a week ago: https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/mutter/-/merge_requests/3668

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[-] warmaster@lemmy.world 1 points 2 months ago

The giant cursor will keep tormenting me for the foreseeable future.

[-] that_leaflet@lemmy.world 1 points 2 months ago

Good news is that it has been backported to GTK3: https://lemmy.world/post/26374819

[-] warmaster@lemmy.world 2 points 2 months ago

already merged! amazing. I wonder when it will hit bazzite.

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