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What cursors do you use on Wayland? (programming.dev)
submitted 1 month ago by muhyb@programming.dev to c/linux@lemmy.ml
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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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[-] muhyb@programming.dev 2 points 1 month ago

So even if there was a native Wayland cursor, that wouldn't fix it too unless everything is native Wayland?

Some compositors allow Xwayland to request moving the real pointer instead of doing emulation, but River apparently doesn’t.

Then this shouldn't happen with native Wayland apps I assume. I guess some problems could occur since it's a transition layer. Though I don't know the working mechanism of Xwayland. I'm kinda confused. So this is a pointer issue but not input issue?

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