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