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.

  • flamingo_pinyata@sopuli.xyz
    271·
    1 month ago

    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.

    • muhyb@programming.devOP
      3·
      1 month ago

      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.

      • Ephera
        12·
        1 month ago

        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…

        • muhyb@programming.devOP
          21·
          1 month ago

          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.

          • Ephera
            5·
            1 month ago

            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…

            • muhyb@programming.devOP
              2·
              1 month 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.